Recipe for pumpkin (damroot) halwa

Ingredients

• White Pumpkin - 2 cups (grated)
• Milk - 2 cups milk
• Milk Maid - 1/2 cup
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Khoa- 1/2 cup grated
• Cardamom Powder - 1 pinch
• Cashew Nuts - 10 to 12 nos
• Ghee - 1/4 cup
• Kesar Powder - 1/2 pinch

Preparation

• Squeeze out the excess water from the Pumkin.
• In a flat hard bottom pan boil milk and when it comes to boil add grated pumpkin and cardamom powder.
• In 1 teaspoon of water mix kesar powder and add it to the pan.
• Keep stirring till the milk gets absorbed by the pumpkin.
• Add sugar and cook in low flame.
• Add 2 tablespoons of ghee and stir continuously till the ghee gets separated.
• Add grated khoa to the cooked halwa.
• The halwa will turn dry when cooked fully.
• In ghee fry the cashewnuts till golden brown. Add it to the halwa.

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