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.