Recipe: Delicious Buckwheat Ash Gourd Halwa Tartlets

Recipe: Delicious Buckwheat Ash Gourd Halwa Tartlets Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Buckwheat Ash Gourd Halwa Tartlets. Half cup sugar (or more, as per taste) A pinch of salt. Remove the pan from the heat and serve the halwa hot, by itself or with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Add the buckwheat flour and roast on a low flame till the flour takes on a pink color.

It is a popular Indian sweet made with ash gourd.

Ash gourd is also known as winter melon or white gourd or white pumpkin or wax gourd.

I am Shireen Sequeira a Mangalorean living in Dubai.

You can cook Buckwheat Ash Gourd Halwa Tartlets using 13 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Buckwheat Ash Gourd Halwa Tartlets

1. You need of For crust.

2. Prepare 110 gm of buckwheat Flour.

3. Prepare 40 gm of cold Ghee.

4. It’s 2-5 tbsp of ice cold Water.

5. Prepare 2-3 tbsp of powdered Sugar.

6. Prepare of For Halwa.

7. It’s 1 cup of grated Ash gourd.

8. Prepare 1/2 cup of Sugar - adjust.

9. Prepare 1 of generous pinch Saffron.

10. You need 1/4 cup of Water.

11. You need 2 tbsp + 1 teaspoon of Ghee.

12. It’s 10-12 of Cashews.

13. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of Cardamom powder.

I love trying out new recipes and giving them a twist of my own.

However, I do try my best to preserve the authenticity of traditional Mangalorean recipes.

This halwa recipe has the goodness of zucchini cooked with sugar, milk and khoya into a delectable halwa.

HOW TO MAKE DATES AND NUTS HALWA: Easy to digest, dudhi halwa is very nourishing and has a cooling effect on the body According to Ayurveda, it balances all the doshas (vata, pitta and kapha) and is beneficial to all age groups.

Buckwheat Ash Gourd Halwa Tartlets step by step

1. Mix buckwheat flour and sugar in a bowl.

2. Add cold ghee and mix well until crumbly.

3. Add little cold water and mix until dough comes together. Do not add in water at once, add 1 tsp at a time.

4. Cover dough with cling wrap.Pat dough and refrigerate for 1 hour.

5. Grease tartlet molds with ghee and dust with flour.

6. Roll the dough, since this is gluten free flour, it will break so patiently roll it.

7. Cut the dough in bigger size than tartlet molds.

8. Press and shape the cut discs into tartlet molds. freeze for 30 minutes.

9. Prick the dough with fork all over and place on baking tray.

10. Bake for 15-18 minutes until golden brown in preheated oven at 180.

11. Allow the baked crusts to cool completely. Keep it aside.

12. For Halwa: Fry cashews in 1 teaspoon ghee until golden brown. keep it aside.

13. In same pan, add grated ash gourd and saute for 2-3 minutes.

14. Add water and mix well.

15. Cover and cook stirring occasionally until raw taste disappears.

16. Add sugar and mix well.

17. Add generous pinch of saffron and mix well.

18. Cook until mixture starts leaving sides of the pan.

19. Add 2 tbsp ghee and mix well.

20. Add cardamom powder and cashews. mix well and switch off.

21. Add halwa to baked tartlets.

22. Serve delicious tartlets.

The combination of milk, ghee, and sugar together with dudhi nourishes the body tissues, strengthens and helps increase physical strength.

Add in nuts and raisan and fry till golden.

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Gardhudhe / Lauki / Bottle Gourd Halwa.