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Pumpkin Recipes

Kaddu Ka Halwa - Pumpkin Halwa Recipe

Ingredients

Pumpkin – 500 grams (grated)

Sugar - ½ cup

Ghee - ¼ cup

Milk - ¼ cup

Mawa - ½ cup

Almonds – 6 to 7

Raisins – 1 tbsp

Pistachios – 6 to 7

Green cardamom – 4

Directions Getting ready:

1. Thinly slice the almonds and pistachios and stone grind the green cardamom seeds.

Making:

2. Heat a pan and put the pumpkin to it along with milk. Stir gently and then cover to cook for 5 minutes. Stir again after 5 minutes and add sugar to the pumpkin. Cover again and cook for 2 more minutes.

3. As the sugar dissolves, cook the pumpkin in open until the juice gets evaporated, stir after regular interval. Once the pumpkin becomes dry, pour 1 tbsp of ghee in the pan and roast the pumpkin for 2 minutes.

4. Then add the mawa to the halwa and roast for 3 to 4 minutes by stirring constantly. Later, add almonds and raisins and mix properly. Turn off the flame and mix crushed green cardamom in the halwa. Transfer to a bowl, pumpkin halwa is ready. '

Serving:

5. Garnish this lip-smacking and luscious pumpkin halwa with pistachios and serve.