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Doodhi Halva

doodhi halva

Ingredients (Serves 8)

  • - 1 kg: Potatoes
  • - 1 kg: Fresh, seedless white gourd (preferably the thin,long variety)
  • - 4 bottles/ 1/4 kg: Milk or Khoya
  • - 2 cups: Sugar
  • - 8 pieces: Cardamoms (powdered)
  • - 5 drops: Rose Essence
  • - 6 piece: Almonds (sliced)
  • - 3 tsp: Ghee
  • - Silver Paper (optional)

Method

  • - Peel and grate white gourd.
  • - 2ress gently to squeeze out all the water.
  • - Put it in a kadai together with the ghee, on a high flame.
  • - Stir, add milk, and keep stirring. (If khoya is used, powder it and add it to the white gourd.) Stir till it thickens.
  • - Then add sugar and stir for another 15 minutes.
  • - Remove from fire.
  • - After 5 minutes, stir in the cardamom powder and rose essence.
  • - Rub a little ghee on a serving dish and pour in the halva.
  • - Decorate with almonds and silver paper.