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