Name: KASI HALWA / WHITE PUMPKIN HALWA recipe by Swathy Nandhini at BetterButter
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 5
Ingredients: White pumpkin – 1 medium size; Jaggery – 1/2 cup; Ghee – 2 tbsp; Cashews – 10; Raisins – 10; Food color – pinch; Cardamom – 2

ABOUT KASI HALWA / WHITE PUMPKIN HALWA RECIPE

Kasi halwa is a delicious, melt in mouth sweet prepared with white pumpkin. It is most popular dessert served in Tamil weddings.

Ingredients Serving: 5

White pumpkin – 1 medium size
Jaggery – 1/2 cup
Ghee – 2 tbsp
Cashews – 10
Raisins – 10
Food color – pinch
Cardamom – 2

Instructions

Wash, cut into slices, remove seeds and peel the skin of white pumpkin.
Grate it using a grater. Lot of water will come while you grate so use a wide bowl. This would approximately come to 2 cups.
Heat a pan with ghee and fry Cashews and raisins for a minute. Remove from ghee and keep aside.
Add grated white pumpkin along with its water to the ghee in pan. Saute well and cook until the water evaporates and it gets cooked.
Now add food color, cardamom and grated jaggery to the pumpkin and stir. The jaggery melts and the mixture becomes loose.
Keep stirring and cook in medium flame until it becomes thick and comes together. The halwa will have a glaze leaving ghee on sides.
Add fried cashews and raisins to the halwa and mix.
Transfer to serving bowl and serve warm.

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