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Pumpkin Halva

Ingredients

  • Grated pumpkin – 3 cups
  • Palm sugar – 1 cup
  • Cardamom
  • Cashew nuts – 10
  • Ghee – 3 spoons
  • Honey – 5 spoons

Method

Steam the grated pumpkin. Drain the excessive liquid from it. (This can be consumed separately). On a saucepan, heat ½ spoon of ghee. Add the steamed and mashed pumpkin to it. Then add the powdered palm sugar to it and stir continuously on a low flame for 5 minutes. Add 2 spoons of ghee and stir well. Put it in low flame till the ghee floats. Roast cashew nuts in 1 spoon of ghee and add to the halva. Take off from flame. After it is cooled, add honey and mix well.

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Properties

  • It is cooling
  • It improves the memory and intellect
  • Nourishing and strengthening
  • Aphrodisiac
  • Tasty
  • Balances Vata and pitta
  • Helps to increase weight
  • Relieves emaciation
  • Helps in relieving white discharge from vagina
  • Relieves body heat

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Podhigai_Arasan - Jul 05, 2014

nice recipes.

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