Lauki ki barfi recipe | How to make lauki barfi (step by step)
Lauki ki burfi recipe - Make this delicious lauki ki burfi within 15 minutes. Lauki barfi made with lauki, sugar, mawa, ghee and cardamom powder.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time15 minutesmins
Total Time25 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Servings: 9burfi
Calories: 197kcal
Author: Preeti
Equipment
Heavy bottom pan
Ingredients
2cupgrated bottle gourd/laukitightly packed, after squeezing out the water
3tablespoonghee/clarified butter
½cupsugar
½cupmawa
1teaspooncardamom powder
2tablespoonalmonds/badamsliced
2tablespooncashews/kajusliced
2tablespoonraisins/kismis
Instructions
Preparations to be done for making lauki barfi recipe:
Grease an Aluminum tray/Thali with sufficient ghee/clarified butter and keep it aside.
Grate the lauki/bottle gourd:
Wash the bottle gourd and pat it dry. Peel off the skin.
Remove the top and the bottom part. Cut it in half.
Remove the soft seed part in the center.
Using a grater/food processor finely grate it.
Gently squeeze out the excess water. Do not squeeze it hard. We need some amount of juice to be retained in lauki so that it is cooked in its own juices. Keep it aside.
Roasting almonds, cashews & raisins
Heat a pan and add ghee/clarified butter.
Roast almonds & cashews until it is golden in color & turns aromatic. Keep it aside.
Also, roast the raisins in ghee until it puffs up. Keep it aside.
Making the Lauki burfi recipe:
Heat 2 tablespoon ghee/clarified butter. Add grated lauki and sauté it for a minute.
Now cover and cook it until it is soft. It will take around 10-15 minutes. Keep stirring it in between.
Remove the lid and cook it uncovered for 2 more minutes or until all the moisture from it evaporates.
Add sugar and mix it well. Once the sugar dissolves the mixture will become thin.
Again keep stirring it until the moisture from the mixture evaporates.
Now to it add mawa. Mix it well.
The mixture will start to solidify, becomes thick and will start to leave the pan.
Add the roasted cashews, almonds and raisins (reserve a few to be used later). Mix and switch off the flame.
Finally, add cardamom powder to it and mix.
Pour the mixture in a greased mold. Sprinkle some cashews and almonds on the top. Press it with a ladle.
Let it sit for an hour.
Cut lauki ki burfi in the desired shape and enjoy.
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Notes
Taste a small piece of bottle gourd and if it is bitter then discard it.
Cook the lauki properly. It should be soft before you add sugar to it. If remained uncooked it will not taste good.
Do not skip adding mawa while making the burfi. It enhances the flavor of burfi.
If the mawa is hard then grate it before adding it to the recipe.
Be careful while adding sugar to the recipe. In this recipe, I have added half a cup of sugar. The mawa that I have used for making lauki ki burfi is sweet. But if you are using unsweetened mawa then you have to increase the quantity of sugar to ¾ cup or 1 cup.