Ingredients:
• 4 cups – ash gourd, peeled and grated
• 1/2 cup – dates, finely chopped
• 2 cups – Sugar
• 1/2 cup – Ghee
• 1/2 tsp – Cardamom powder
Method:
- Lightly squeeze the grated ash gourd.
- Reserve the juice.
- Grind the dates adding some of the juice to a fine paste.
- Heat the ghee in a thick kadai.
- Add grated ash gourd and cook stirring for 3-5 minutes.
- Add the date paste, sugar and remaining juice.
- Cook stirring till the mixture forms a thick lump that comes away from the side of the kadai.
- To test, take a tsp of the mixture and drop on a small plate.
- Rub with the back of the spoon.
- If the mixture can be shaped into a ball that does not stick to the fingers and is fairly firm, the result is right.
- If not, cook for some more time. During the testing, remove the kadai from fire.
- Add cardamom powder.
- Mix well and pour the mixture in a greased “thali.”
- Cool till its firm and cut into pieces.