Recipe: Delicious Pumpkin halwa

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Recipe: Delicious Pumpkin halwa Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Pumpkin halwa. Pumpkin halwa or kaddu ka halwa is usually prepared during festivals or the season when pumpkins are flooded in the market. There are a lot of recipes in Indian cuisine that uses pumpkin. Like it is added to the curries, stews, sambar and stir fry dishes.

This is a Very very easy recipe of pumpkin halwa and the credit goes to my mil.

The whole halwa is made in the pressure cooker, saving time and energy.

You can also make the halwa in a pan, though.

You can have Pumpkin halwa using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pumpkin halwa

  1. It’s 1/2 kg of pumpkin.

  2. You need 4 tb of sp sugar.

  3. It’s 2 tb of sp pure ghee.

  4. You need 1 tb of sp coconut powder.

  5. Prepare 8-10 strands of saffron.

  6. You need 1 tb of sp magaj.

  7. Prepare 8-10 of pistachio.

  8. Prepare 5 of almonds.

  9. Prepare 2 tb of sp water.

Pumpkin halwa is a very popular sweet dish usually made for special occasions.

Pumpkin halwa is an Indian dessert that's easy to make, sweet and aromatic from cardamon and so comforting, you'll be hugging the bowl as you enjoy.

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Pumpkin halwa recipe - It is made from orange pumpkin aka kaddu, sugar, jaggery and milk.

Pumpkin halwa step by step

  1. Peel, Wash and chop pumpkin in small pieces. Put it in a pressure cooker with 2 tb sp water add pressure cook till three whistles. Switch off the flame Let the pressure releases automatically.

  2. Now mash this cooked pumpkin with ladle thoroughly. Add sugar and saffron strands and cook on low flame stirring continuously till it gets thicken. Add ghee and cook on low flame till ghee separates..

  3. Add magaj, coconut powder and chopped almonds and pistachio. Keep a few for garnishing..

  4. Serve this super delicious halwa garnished with chopped almonds, pistachio and coconut powder..

It has a touch of flavor from cardamom and coconut.

Since pumpkin is known as Kaddu in Hindi.

This halwa is called kaddu ka halwa.

Here very less amount of ghee and no khoya is used.

So it is very light on stomach.