Lauki/Bottle Gourd Halwa with Jaggery

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Lauki/Bottle gourd Halwa with Jaggery - A sweet healthy guilt-free treat. Eating bottle gourd provides a cooling effect on the body & has immense health benefits.
Halwas are all time favourites of everyone. This recipe is made with jaggery with is much healthier.

Ingredients: 
- 2 lauki/bottle gourd
- 1 and half cup powdered jaggery
- 1/2 litre milk
- 4-5 spoon ghee
- chopped dry fruits: 10 almonds, 10 cashews, 10 postachios.
- a handful of raisins
- 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder.

Method:
- Rinse, peel and grate the lauki.

- Take a heavy bottom pan, add 2 spoon ghee, once the ghee is hot add grated lauki and saute it for about 10-12 minutes on medium flame.

- Next add milk and give the mixture a good mix.

- Continue to cook on medium flame and keep stirring it in regular intervals.

- You will find that the milk is absorbed fully. At this stage add the powdered jaggery and give it a good mix.

- Lauki will become gooey once again when jaggery melts. Continue cooking with patience, the lauki halwa will gradually begin to thicken once again. Keep stirring it in between.

- Add 2 spoon ghee, cardamom powder, chopped dry fruits, raisins mix it and cook further till the halwa thickens and starts to release ghee from sides of the pan.
(Make sure there is no moisture in lauki halwa)

- Allow the halwa to cool down a bit and enjoy warm lauki halwa as desert with your friends and family.

Note: 
Taste the bottle gourd before grating it. If you find the bottle gourd sour or bitter avoid making halwa using such bottle gourd as it will ruin the taste of whole halwa.

Use full fat milk for making this halwa.

You can also add more dryfruits and ghee if you want to.

If you don't want jaggery then you can use Mishri sugar candy/rock sugar for this recipe.

- you can refrigerate the halwa and serve it cold if you want to.

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