Ingredients
250 gm Bottle gourd peeled and washed 100 gm Mawa/khoya 1/2 cup Sugar 3 tbsp Desiccated coconut 10-12 badam kaju chopped 1 tbsp powdered sugar 1/2 tsp baking soda/ soda bicarbonate
3-4 pistachios chopped for garnishing 3 cups water
Instructions
- Collect all the required ingredients.
- Wash and peel the lauki and cut 1 inch round pieces.
- Scrape out the pulp and seeds from lauki in such a way that the other end remains joined.
- Prepare all the rings like this.
- Heat water in a deep pan, add a pinch of soda bicarbonate.
- Once the water starts boiling, drop the lauki in it then cover and cook them for 5 minutes on medium flame.
- 5 minutes later, lauki will get cooked aptly. Turn off the flame, leave the vessel covered as it is for 2-3 minutes.
- After 3 minutes, remove the lid and transfer the lauki on a sieve so that the excess water gets drained out.
- To prepare the sugar syrup, take sugar in a vessel along with 3/4 cup of water to make a thin sugar syrup.
- Place it on flame to simmer until the sugar dissolves completely. Stir in-between.
- When sugar melts and its starts boiling, add semi cooked raw lauki rings.
- Cover it and make sure that the lauki doesn’t break. Cook the lauki rings in sugar syrup until its colour changes slightly.
- Turn off the flame, cover and let it rest. Keep the lauki drenched in sugar syrup for few minutes so that they become sweet.
- Meanwhile, prepare the stuffing for the lauki. For this, heat a pan and put the mawa in it. Keep stirring constantly and roast the mawa on low flame so that it doesn’t stick to the pan.
- After roasting 2-3 minutes, turn off the flame and allow it to cool down.
- As the mawa cools down, transfer it to a plate and add chopped badam, kaju and powdered sugar.
- Mix well until all the ingredients combined well.
- Mawa stuffing is ready. Keep it aside.
- After 10 minutes, take out the lauki rings from the syrup and put them on a plate.
- Then stuff each lauki generously with the mawa stuffing.
- Press the filling with light hands so it settles down inside the lauki.
- Coat the lauki rings with desiccated coconut.
- Place pistachios or any dry fruit at the centre and press gently.
- Prepare all the sweet in the same manner.
- Lauki Rings sweet is ready. Serve these scrumptious and finger-licking lauki sweet straightaway.