Hi and PUMPKIN HALWA dessert recipe

[Guest guest]

Hi.

I am Swamy residing at Atlanta.  Just now we have spent busy days with kids

celebrating Halloweeen. Lot of pumpkins are thrown away..Why can't we use it for

the preparation of nice and mouth watering sweet which everybody in the family

love.

This is an Indian dish.Try this and enjoy.

   

Recipe for PUMPKIN HALWA

 

Ingredients

 

Grated pumpkin      :  2 cups 

Milk                          Half a cup

Honey                      1 cup

Sugar                       Half a cup .

Cardamom                5 pieces - grounded

Cashew  nuts          10 pieces (broken into half)

Ghee                       Quater of a cup (melted butter )

Safron                      Two pinches

 

 

Method:

 

    As a fist  remove moisture from grated pumpkin and keep aside.  Coat a broad

plate with a tea spoon of butter in all sides and set aside.( This is to keep

tthe final product) Take two spoons of Ghee in a pan and roast cashews until

they become golden brown.  Remove the roasted cashew and set aside.

   Squeese the water from the grated pumpkin and set aside, Heat one Table spoon

of ghee in a pan and heat it. Add the grated pumpkin to it and stir well in a

low flame..This is to get rid of the raw smell from pumpkin..

   Next add the milk to the pumpkin and cook. Then add sugar, honey, and stir

constantly in a low flame.till the pumpkin cooked and becomes  tender. Now add

cardamom, cashew and saffron. Mix well and leave it for few minutes..

   Add tea spoons of ghee to it and stir few times.in a low flame.Stir until the

ghee floats above the contents  .Remove and tranfer to the ghee coated 

plate, cool and serve.(Some prefer it a little warm ).

Now the Pumpkin Halwa is ready. Can I have some?

 

Dender:

Swamy

   

 

 

         

[Guest guest]

I discovered in the 70's that you can cook your kid's Halloween pumpkins even if

they are carved. Once I found out that you could cook regular pumpkins, I

started letting the kids carve the Jack-O-Lanterns on Halloween afternoon. Then

I brought them in later that night. Sometimes, if I had time, I would bake the

pumpkin, mash it and put it in freezer bags that night. If it was too late, I

would just do it the next day. Sometimes I can the pumpkin in pint size

canning jars and sometimes I freeze the mashed pumpkin. I did find that baking

is better than trying to cut the pumpkin up and having to peel it. If you bake

it, all you have to do is scoop the cooked pumpkin out of the shell. I have

also, sometimes, cut part of the pumpkin in strips, peel it and then cut it into

chunks to use in other cooked dishes.

 

I don't like to waste food of any kind if at all possible, and not it is easier

since we don't have any children at home to carve Jack-O-Lanterns for. I buy

the pumpkin and then just cook it when I want. Pumpkins will last a long time

if kept cool.

Nancy C.

 

 

 

 

Hi.

I am Swamy residing at Atlanta. Just now we have spent busy days with kids

celebrating Halloweeen. Lot of pumpkins are thrown away..Why can't we use it for

the preparation of nice and mouth watering sweet which everybody in the family

love.