Let’s learn a new sweet dish recipe of Doodhi ka halwa. It is also known as dhoodhi halwa. A healthy sweet dish from rustic homes of India made with doodhi (bottle gourd) a healthy vegetable with lots of health benefits.
Bottle guard/ lauki is generally used in India to cook sabji, but this lauki ka halwa will make you a fan of this dish.
- Prep Time:5 mins
- Cooking Time:15 mins
- Total:20 mins
- Servings:5 (Depends)
- vegetarian desset
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Let’s learn a new sweet dish recipe of lauki ka halwa. It is also known as dhoodhi halwa. A healthy sweet dish from rustic homes of India made with doodhi (bottle gourd) a healthy vegetable with lots of health benefits.
Bottle guard/ lauki is generally used in India to cook sabji, but this lauki ka halwa will make you a fan of this dish.
- Ingredients:
- Doodhi or lauki (bottle gourd) – 800 gm
- Milk – 1 cup
- Green cardamom powder – 3 gm
- Cinnamon – 1-inch stick
- Sugar – 50 gm
- Clarified butter (ghee) – 20 gm
- Dry fruits – 20 gm
LET’S MAKE CHASNI
Step 1: Bring 2 cups of water to boil and add 1 cup of sugar to it.
Step 2: Add a piece of cinnamon to the water.
Step 3: Allow it to boil for 10-15min on medium flame.
METHOD OF PREPARATION
Step 1: First peel off lauki (bottle guard)
Step 2: Grate lauki.
Step 3: Bring the pan to heat and add 2 tablespoons of ghee.
Step 4: Now add grated lauki and keep stirring for 5minutes.
Step 5: Now add half a cup of milk and mix well and again add the rest half of the milk.
Step 6: Add the chasni and cook till the moisture evaporates.
Step 7: Add chopped nuts for garnishing and finally add cinnamon powder.
Lauki ka halwa is ready to serve now.
Tips
- Use fresh and and remove the inner seeds of bottle guard.
- Saute lauki nicely in Ghee to avoid the raw taste in halwa.
- Use full cream milk. Don’t use skimmed milk
- Taste little lauki before use, if it is bitter in taste don’t use it is poisonous for health.
- Cook only on low flame and keep stirring continiously.
- Use extra ghee if you want
Nutritional value
- Calories- 400kcal
- Carbohydrate-40gm
- Calcium-201mg
- Sodium-55mg
- Cholesterol-50mg
- Protein-6gm
- Fat-23gm
Also, read our other recipe.
If you like our healthy dessert then please let us know in the comments and do try for yourself.
About Chef
Aditya Saksena
I am a hotel management graduate from a reputed hotel school with almost 10 years of working experience in various hotels namely wyndham grand, Radisson blu, Park plaza and reach gastronomical heights when started working for a Michelin stared Indian chef named Chef Vineet Bhatia in his flagship restaurant Rasoi by vineet in Bahrain. I love cooking food and it is my religion that I practice regularly.
