Ingredients

• 1.5 kg - lauki
• 400 g - sugar (or as per taste)
• 1 litre - milk (full cream preferably)
• 9 to 10 tbsp - ghee
• 10 - green cardamoms (peeled and powdered)
• 15 strands saffron (dissolved in 2 to 3 tbsp milk)
• 200 g - mawa
• 12 to 15 almonds (finely sliced)

How to Make Lauki Ka Halwa with Mawa

• Wash the lauki and grate it.
• Squeeze out the water.
• Heat ghee in a heavy bottomed vessel and saute the grated lauki on a medium flame till ghee separates.
• Add milk, powdered cardamoms and saffron.
• Cook on a medium flame, stirring at short intervals.
• When the mixture is fairly dry, add sugar and cook on a low flame for another 8 to 1o minutes.
• Add mawa and mix well.
• Keep the vessel on a preheated tawa on a low flame for few minutes.
• Garnish with sliced almonds and serve hot.