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lauki kheer

Sorakkai Payasam / Lauki Kheer

Light, simple, delicious milk pudding prepared with bottle gourd cooked in milk and sugar!

Course Dessert
Cuisine Indian
Keyword dessert, kheer, payasam
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings 4
Author Priya Shiva

Ingredients

  • 1 Bottle gourd/lauki/sorakkai
  • 3 tsp ghee/clarified butter
  • 4 cups milk
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp cardamom powder
  • 12 broken cashews
  • 10 raisins

Instructions

  1. Peel bottle gourd, cut it into half length wise and take out the seeds from center of the bottle gourd.

  2. Grate the bottle gourd and squeeze out the water.

  3. Heat 2 tsp ghee in frying pan and add the grated bottle gourd. Stir fry for few minutes on low flame. Transfer this in to the bowl.

  4. Heat 1 tsp ghee in same pan and fry cashews and raisins till cashews turn golden brown.

  5. Boil the milk in sauce pan. Once it reaches boiling point, lower the flame and let the milk simmer for few minutes.

  6. Add the bottle gourd to the milk and cook for 5 minutes. Keep stirring.

  7. Add the sugar and cardamom powder and mix it well.

  8. Garnish with fried cashews and rasins and serve this pudding warm or cold.