Dumroot/Ash Gourd Halwa
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • 2 cups Ash gourd, winter melon,
  • 1 cup dark jaggery, less sweet kind
  • ½ cup khoya or milk powder
  • ¼ cup ghee
  • 6 cardamom- powdered
  • Cashews - 15, chopped and toasted lightly
  • touch of food coloring(optional)
Instructions
  1. Squeeze the water out of the peeled and grated melon.
  2. In a non stick pan, add a tsp of ghee and dump the grated gourd. Keep stirring and cooking the gourd until all of the remaining water is dried out. The bottoms will slightly brown and it is totally ok. Make sure not to burn it. Keep stirring.
  3. After about 15 minutes, add the milk powder, ghee. Mix well and incorporate everything. Cook for another 5 minutes. Add the jaggery powder, the food coloring and cook again, stirring continuously. Make sure to keep the flame on medium to low. This will go again for another 15 minutes. Add the powdered cardamom and the cashews. Once the mixture is sort of thick and you see the ghee oozing out, switch off the flame.
  4. Pour mixture in an oven safe dish. Bake this at 300 degrees for 10 minutes and increase the temp to 350 and let it go another 10 minutes or until the top is caramelized. Take it out and serve warm.
Recipe by Food Fashion Party at https://www.foodfashionparty.com/2022/10/15/dumroot-ash-gourd-halwa/