Ingredients

• Small Pumpkin – 1/2
• Milk – 100ml
• Sugar – 200g
• Cardamom – 6
• Cashew nuts – 30
• Raisins – 8
• Ghee – Required

How to Prepare

Total Preparation Time: 20-30 minutes

1. Remove seeds and sloths of pumpkin then cut into pieces and grind like a thick smooth paste then keep aside
2. Heat a pan with ghee, fry cashew nuts, raisins, cardamom for 2 minutes then keep aside
3. Take a pan and add 100g sugar with 50ml water, allow them to melt completely
4. And heat a heavy bottomed pan with 2 tbsp ghee and then add pumpkin paste and 100ml milk
5. And stir them continuously till the recipe becomes thinker, this process may takes 20 to 30 minutes
6. After that add sugar and mix them well
7. Then add ghee followed by fried raisin, cashew nuts, cardamom then mix them well thoroughly and stir for 3 minutes
8. After that add 2 tbsp ghee and mix again and stir till the ghee comes out from the halwa, this process may takes 30 minutes
9. Stir it very well to avoid burnt bottom and once it becomes thicker, thick gooey, non sticky means the recipe is in perfect halwa consistency
10. Finally turn off the flame and transfer the halwa into a bowl
11. Now the tasty Ashgourd halwa is ready for serve