Kadu Ka Halwa Recipe

Pakistanis use pumpkins to prepare gravies. We also make kadu ka halwa, it’s a sweet dish cooked with sugar, ghee, milk, and nuts. In the middle east, pumpkin is used for sweet dishes.

Ingredients Of Kadu Ka Halwa

• 2 kg  pumpkin, peeled and cubed
• 1-liter milk
• 1.5 kg sugar
• 5 cardamoms, crushed
• 50 gm, pistachios, almonds, cashew nuts, chopped
• 300 gm plain flour, roasted
• 1 cup ghee
• saffron, few strands

Method Of Kadu Ka Halwa

• Heat ghee in a nonstick pan, add pumpkin and saute it on low heat until the smell of raw pumpkin is gone.
• Now add sugar and mix it well. Add milk and cook until pumpkin becomes soft. keep mashing it with the spoon or masher.
• Add flour, saffron, cardamoms and continue cooking till the ghee separates from the halwa.
• Garnish it with nuts and serve hot.