Sunday 29 January 2012

DUDHI KHEER / LAUKI KI KHEER / BOTTLEGOURD PUDDING

Lauki ki kheer recipe is an healthy Indian kheer recipe. It has a sweet taste of Lauki in it. I had prepared this last thursday during my husbands fast.Normally i rarely buy bottlegourd as I am not a lauki fan personally especially the sabji.The only dish which i willingly tried was lauki muthia.Kheer is the second lauki dish prepared by me on husbands request.

Dudhi is considered to have medicinal value in the treatment of urinary tract infections, constipation, insomnia, fatigue,blood pressure and weight loss
Eating the raw vegetable is not recommended there being some concern that it may be harmful to the stomach and intestine, but the juice is considered an ideal weight loss aid, since 100 g of this vegetable has only 12 calories.





Ingredients :
1 medium size bottle gourd (lauki / dudhi)
1 tablespoon ghee
5 cups milk
2 cup sugar
2 tbsp skimmed milk powder
1/2  teaspoon coarsely ground cardamom powder
4-5 each almonds & pista sliced
8-10  safron strands (optional)


Method:
1. Peel the bottle gourd  with a peeler leaving shades of light green.
2. Cut it half  length wise and remove seeds from centre of the bottle gourd.
3. Grate the bottle gourd and squeeze-out the water. After squeezing the water,  bottle gourd would be 3 cups.
4. Heat ghee in frying pan on medium high heat as it melts add the grated bottle gourd and stir-fry for about 4 minutes.
5. Boil the milk in wide frying pan on medium high heat. Cook until the milk is reduced to about four cups. Stir often to ensure the milk does not burn in the bottom of the pan.
7. Add the  to the milk  to stir-fry bottle gourd and cook for another 10 minutes until the milk is creamy again make sure you stir the kheer often to ensure the milk does not burn in the bottom of the pan.add milk powder & stir often for 2-3 minutes
8. Next reduce the heat to medium and add the sugar and cardamom powder. Cook for another about 2 minutes and turn off the heat.
9. Garnish with saffron, almonds and pistachios
10. Kheer is ready this can be served warm, at room temperature or cold.
11.You can also refrigerate Lauki kheer for 1 hour and serve it cool.

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