Pumpkin Halwa (Kaddu ka Halwa)

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Ingredients:

·        1 ½ kg pumpkin

·        4 tbsp ghee

·        1 cup milk

·        300 g sugar

·        15 almond

·        15 pistachio

·        15 cashew

·        1 tsp cardamom powder

·        Rose water, few drops

·        Almond essence, few drops

·        Food colour (green) few drops

·        2 tbsp khoya

Recipe:

          Peel pumpkins cut into slices and deseed. Then cut the slices into small cubes. Heat ghee in a heavy based pan or ‘karahi’. Add pumpkin and stir fry for a minute. Now simmer for about 15 minutes. Then add milk and sugar and cook until flesh is soft. Blend with a hand blender. Add almond essence, rose water, grated khoya, food colour and cardamom powder and cook for another 5 minutes. Remove from the heat. Now slice the almond, cashew and pistachio nuts. Garnish the halwa with nuts and serve hot.