Kasi Halwa

Ingredients:

White Pumpkin - grated 2 cups

Ghee - 1 cup

Sugar - 1 1/2 cups
Cardomom Powder - 2 pinches

Cashew nuts - 12 broken and fried in a spoon of ghee

Milk - 1 cup

Method:

                   Boil sugar with 3/4th cup of water and make sugar syrup of 1 thread consistency. Heat 2 to 4 tbspns of ghee in a hard bottom vessel and saute the grated pumpkin.   Add the milk to pumpkin and cook it in the milk till the pumpkin is soft. Mash it well in the milk while cooking. Add the sugar syrup to the pumpkin slowly constantly stirring. Add the remaining ghee slowly till it is absorbed completely. Keep cooking till the halwa leaves the sides of the vessel.  Remove from flame, add the cardamom powder and mix well. Decorate it with fried cashew nuts.