Damroot or Kashi Halwa

Dhamroot or Kashi Halwa

Damroot is one of the finest sweet especially served in weddings. It is a pleasure to eat this sweet, though one cannot eat  in large quantity. It is made of white Pumpkin.

Ingredients needed:

1 measure: Grated white pumpkin, squeeze out water by hand as far as possible

3/4th measure:Sugar

1/2 spoon: Elachi powder

Few strands of kesari, soaked in 3 spoons of warm milk

6 spoons of ghee

1) In a thick bottomed kadai, add grated pumpkin and sugar. Start frying on medium or high flame, until the sugar melts and pumpkin is cooked.

2) Keep adding ghee every 2 minutes once and keep stirring, until it becomes little dark in color dnd thickens like halwa consistency. This might take approximately 15 to 20 minutes

3) Add elachi powder and kesar-milk mixtue.

4) Heat ghee in a kadai, add raisins, cashews and fry till brown. Add to the above halwa

Serve hot..

Enjoy...