{"id":10443,"date":"2013-08-31T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T06:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=10443"},"modified":"2015-04-27T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T11:14:16","slug":"lauki-ka-halwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/lauki-ka-halwa","title":{"rendered":"Lauki Ka Halwa Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10446\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/lauki-ka-halwa\/attachment\/lauki-ka-halwa\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10446\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-my-custom-thumb wp-image-10446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/Lauki-Ka-Halwa-665x443.jpg\" alt=\"Lauki Ka Halwa\" width=\"665\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/Lauki-Ka-Halwa-665x443.jpg 665w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/Lauki-Ka-Halwa-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/Lauki-Ka-Halwa.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauki Ka Halwa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Young mom&#8217;s constantly wish to make their kids eat more of green vegetables while most of the kids just don&#8217;t get along well with these veggies. We all know the benefits of including them in our diet. So I give you a recipe which your kids and family would love and you would also love to see them having <em>lauki<\/em> with a smile. I made this Lauki Ka Halwa and my kid just finished it to its last bite. Lauki Ka Halwa goes well as a dessert and can be made quickly. You can decorate it nicely with dry fruits and silver foil and it won&#8217;t even appear that it is made from the regular <em>lauki<\/em>. So next time you want to make a dessert for your family, try out this delectable Lauki Ka Halwa and see how the veggie is thoroughly enjoyed to the last bite.<\/p>\n<h2>Ingredients needed for\u00a0Lauki Ka Halwa<\/h2>\n<p>Ghee &#8211; 2 tbsp<\/p>\n<p>Lauki ( Bottle gourd) &#8211; 2 cups (grated)<\/p>\n<p>Milk &#8211; 1 cup<\/p>\n<p>Cardamom powder &#8211; 1\/2 tsp<\/p>\n<p>Khoya &#8211; 1 cup (broken into small pieces)<\/p>\n<p>Sugar &#8211; 1\/2 cup<\/p>\n<p>Dry fruits for garnishing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>How to make Lauki Ka Halwa<\/h2>\n<p>Heat ghee in a heavy bottom pan.<\/p>\n<p>When the ghee is hot, add grated lauki.<\/p>\n<p>Fry for 2-3 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Add milk and cook till milk is reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Add cardamom powder and khoya and mix well.<\/p>\n<p>Cook for 3-4 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Add sugar and cook for another minute.<\/p>\n<p>Garnish with almonds and pistachio slivers.<\/p>\n<p>Serve hot or chilled, as per choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young mom&#8217;s constantly wish to make their kids eat more of green vegetables while most of the kids just don&#8217;t get along well with these veggies. We all know the benefits of including them in our diet. So I give you a recipe which your kids and family would love and you would also love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":10446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3512,3513,62,3482,3487,3529],"tags":[4984],"class_list":{"0":"post-10443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-desserts-and-sweets","8":"category-festival-and-celebration-cuisines","9":"category-food","10":"category-vegetarian","11":"category-north-indian","12":"category-kids-special","13":"tag-halwa-recipes"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29189,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443\/revisions\/29189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}