Lauki kheer recipe
Creamy delicious kheer made using bottle gourd
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 1 cup grated lauki | bottle gourd
- 4 cups full cream milk
- ¼ cup condensed milk
- 2 tbsp sugar optional
- Few strands saffron
- ¼ tsp cardamom powder
Instructions
- Peel the skin of the bottle gourd and scoop out the seeds.
- Grate them and squeeze out the water from them.
- In a kadai add the ghee and saute this grated squeezed bottle gourd for 3-5 mins on a low flame.
- Keep it aside. Boil the milk and reduce it to 3/4th of the quantity.
- Add condensed milk and stir well.
- Add the grated bottle gourd to the milk mixture and let this boil in milk for 10 minutes on a low flame.
- Switch off the flame and add sugar (if using) and cardamom powder. Stir well.
- Garnish with a few saffron strands.
- Serve chilled.
Notes
1. You can skip the condensed milk and add only sugar.
2. Lauki kheer tastes yummy when served chilled.
