Navratri Recipe- Celebrate The Days Of Maa Durga With Lauki Ki Kheer

What’s make this veggie so popular these days is its benefits on the treatment of high blood pressure and heart disease. lauki is 96% water so is light on stomach and aids digestion,cure acidity,ulcers,Jaundice,reduce body weight and many more health benefits.

Though their are many who don’t even like the mention of this humble vegetable,but luckily every one at my home likes bottle gourd. So I make so many varieties from lauki – Lauki chana daal subzi, delicious Lauki ke kofta , and the simple yet delicious lauki moong daal subzi are among the few easy and healthy recipes which I regularly make from lauki .

Ingredients

1 liter Full fat Milk
400 gms Bottle Gourd / Lauki
1 cup Sugar / Chini
1/3 tsp Cardamom Powder / Elaichi Powder
2 tsp Rose Water / Gulab Jal
2 tbsp Clarified Butter / Desi Ghee
8 Almonds / Badam
10 Pistachio / Pista
pinch Saffron / Kesar

Method

* Boil milk for 10 minutes in a pan on low flame.

* Peel and remove all the seeds from lauki.Grate it with a fine grater.

* Squeeze the grated bottle gourd to remove extra moisture(you can use this water to make chapati dough)

* Heat ghee in a heavy bottom pan.Add grated bottle gourd in it and stir fry on medium heat for about 5 minutes

* Add milk in the bottle gourd pan.Simmer for about 30 minutes,keep stirring in between.

* Now add sugar and chopped nuts and simmer for 10 minutes.

* Switch off the flame and add cardamom powder.

* When kheer cool down completely then add rose water in it.

* Garnish with saffron and few chopped nuts.

* Serve chilled or warm.