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How to Make Halwai-Style Lauki Ki Barfi | No-Fail Lauki Barfi Recipe with Khoya | Easy Dudhi Barfi Recipe

How to Make Halwai-Style Lauki Ki Barfi | No-Fail Lauki Barfi Recipe with Khoya | Easy Dudhi Barfi Recipe

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How to Make Halwai-Style Lauki Ki Barfi with rich khoya, perfect sweetness, and authentic festive flavors at home.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Dessert, Sweets
Cuisine Indian
Servings 1 kg

Ingredients
  

1 cup = 250 ml

  • 1 kg Lauki/Bottle Gourd
  • 2 tbsp desi ghee
  • 2 cup milk (full fat)
  • 100 gram mawa or 1 cup milk powder
  • 1/4 cup desiccated Coconut
  • 3/4 cup Sugar
  • 6-7 drops green food colour (optional)
  • 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
  • Dry fruit of your choice (we used almonds, melon seeds & cashews)

Instructions
 

  • Peel the skin of the louki.
  • Grate the louki with the big grater hole side.
  • Take a non stick pan and heat desi ghee.
  • Add the grated lauki and mix well.
  • Put a lid and let louki cook on medium heat for 4-5 minutes.
  • Louki will turn slightly soft.
  • Add milk.
  • Mix well.
  • Put a lid and let louki cook on low to medium heat.
  • Stir occasionally. No need to do it quite frequently because there's ample of milk in the pan.
  • Cook till all milk is gone.
  • Add mawa, sugar and desiccated coconut.
  • Give them a good mix.
  • Add green food colour.
  • Mix well.
  • Let louki cook on low to medium heat.
  • Stir from time to time.
  • A stage will come when louki will reach the consistency of halwa.
  • Add cardamom powder and mix. (You can enjoy it as halwa as well).
  • Keep cooking until lauki starts to get dry and starts leaving the base of the pan.
  • Now remove the pan from heat and quickly spread the mixture evenly on a pre-greased plate.
  • Sprinkle the nuts on top and gently tap them so that they stick to the mixture.
  • Keep aside to cool down completely.
  • Cut into barfi.
  • Enjoy.

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Notes

  1. Prefer to buy fresh louki because it has no to least seeds.
  2. In case you don't get fresh louki and the one you got has seeds, then grate the outer part only and don't use portion with seeds.
  3. In place of khoya, you can also add milk powder or condensed milk. In case of condensed milk, be careful while adding sugar. You may or may not need to add sugar depending upon your liking for sweetness.
  4. You can make this Barfi even without khoya or milk powder or condensed milk but probably the richness in the taste of Barfi will be missing.
  5. Use of Coconut is also optional. Drop it if you don't have coconut. It just gives a great tsste and binding as well.
  6. With the same method, you can make louki ka Halwa. You may or may not use coconut. Only difference will be don't cook the louki mixture until it reaches a dough consistency. Leave it bit earlier.
  7. You can serve as it is or place it in the refrigerator and enjoy chilled for at least a week.
Keyword louki ki barfi with khoya