Jain Dudhi Halwa Recipe
By January 27, 2014
Published:- 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
- First and foremost peel the skin of dudhi
- Finely grate the dudhi and remove all the water from it by squeezing it
- Take a non stick pot, add ghee in it and heat it
- Put all the grated dudhi in the hot ghee
- Add little whole milk in it and stir continuously
- Once the dudhi looks cooked add sugar and color in it
- Once all the water of the sugar is burnt and the mixture gets thick enough, grate the maava and add into it
- Stir it properly and once the halwa leaves the vessel switch off the gas and keep the vessel aside.
- Add Vanilla essence and Elaichi powder into it and stir it again
- Apply ghee to the serving dish and pour the halwa in it. Make a smooth layer of it
- After it cools a little add the grated almond into it and press the halwa with a bowl make a thin layer
- After it cools down completely make small pieces of it, then put the halwa in the fridge for 1 hr and then serve it