Jain Food Recipes

Jain Dudhi Halwa Recipe

By avni Published: January 27, 2014

• Yield: 8 bowls (8 Servings)
• Prep: 15 mins
• Cook: 30 mins
• Ready In: 45 mins

One of the famous Indian Desert. A very delicious sweetdish, the main ingredient being bottle guard

Ingredients

• 500 gm Dudhi/lauki Kuni dudhi (without big seeds)
• 300 gm Maavo
• 2 drops blue colour
• 400 gm Sugar
• 21/2 spoon Ghee
• 2 drops Vanilla essence
• handful Almonds finely chopped
• 2 pinch Elaichi
• as per required Whole Milk

Instructions

1. First and foremost peel the skin of dudhi
   
2. Finely grate the dudhi and remove all the water from it by squeezing it
   
3. Take a non stick pot, add ghee in it and heat it
   
4. Put all the grated dudhi in the hot ghee
   
5. Add little whole milk in it and stir continuously
   
6. Once the dudhi looks cooked add sugar and color in it
   
7. Once all the water of the sugar is burnt and the mixture gets thick enough, grate the maava and add into it
   
8. Stir it properly and once the halwa leaves the vessel switch off the gas and keep the vessel aside.
   
9. Add Vanilla essence and Elaichi powder into it and stir it again
   
10. Apply ghee to the serving dish and pour the halwa in it. Make a smooth layer of it
    
11. After it cools a little add the grated almond into it and press the halwa with a bowl make a thin layer
    
12. After it cools down completely make small pieces of it, then put the halwa in the fridge for 1 hr and then serve it
    

• Cuisine: Indian
• Course: Dessert
• Skill Level: Easy