Tuesday, February 22, 2011

white pumpkin halwa

Ingredients
White pumpkin washed, peeled & pressure cooked 2 cups
milk powder 2 tbsp         sugar 1 1/2 tbsp          ghee/ clarified butter 2 tsp
nuts & raisins to garnish

Method
1) I pressure cooked pumpkin as being old, I find it difficult to grate pumpkin or even carrots  ! so those who are young & want to burn out more calories, can wash, peel & grate pumpkin fine, or pressure cook the pieces, the easy way as I did.
2) heat a thick pan/ non-stick pan with ghee, add the grated / cooked pumpkin. In case you're using grated pumpkin, then may be, you'll need a bit more ghee to fry the pumpkin well till cooked.
3) Once pumpkin is cooked & smashed, add milk powder cook for another 2 minutes, then add sugar or sugar substitute to taste, cook till sugar dissolves completely, stir till dry.
4 ) Remove & garnish with nuts & raisins.

For one thing, it maybe 2 cups of pumpkin cooked, but you'll only get a small ' katori' of halwa. So, if you want more, add accordingly more quantity. I think, one should be able to do this in microwave also, in the same way. But, as I had the ghee kadai, I used the same to make it  on the gas !

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