Nutritional Benefits:
It is a highly nutritive vegetable with vitamins B and C along with crucial minerals that the body needs like calcium, potassium, iron and phosphorous and also fibre .
Ingredients:
Grated Ash Gourd/ Poosanikai - 2 Cups
Sugar - 1.5 cups
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Food Colour
Water - 1/2 cup
Cashewnut - 5-6
Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
Method:
Peel the outer shell of the ashgourd and cut into pieces. Then grate it using the vegetable grater.
Take a pan add grated ash gourd and cook until it becomes soft. Then add sugar. It produces some water. Let it be cooked for some more time and wait till water reduces.
In the mean time fry the cashews in ghee and keep it aside. Now the water level has reduced. Add a pinch of food colour of your choice. Saute continuously with your laddle so that it do not get burnt. Now add ghee and finally add cardamom powder and the fried cashew nuts to it.
Now a delicious Poosanikai Halwa is ready to serve. Serve hot.
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