How to make lauki barfi recipe at home. Easy recipe to make gourd barfi in grandmother Nani Style

How to make lauki barfi at home: Be it festive season or any special opportunity, happiness looks incomplete until something sweet is made in the house. In such a situation, if there is a dessert made with your hands at home instead of the sweets of the market, then its taste is doubled and the heart also gets relaxed. By the way, you must have made gram flour barfi, coconut barfi or milk barfi several times, but today we are going to tell you the very easy and grandmother-grandmother style recipe of gourd barfi. Gourd is often used to make vegetables, but the taste of barfi made from it surprises everyone. You can feed this barfi from the children of the house to the elderly. Gourd barfi is not only delicious but also remains light for digestion. Many times children do not eat gourd vegetables, so this barfi is the best way to feed gourd for them. Milk and dry fruits are also rich in it, due to which it is also beneficial in terms of health. It does not take much time to make it nor need expensive items.

You can easily make it in birthday, worship, or any small and big celebrations. So let’s know how to make gourd barfi in a traditional and desi style.

Materials required to make gourd barfi

1. Preparation of gourd

First of all wash and peel the gourd and remove its seeds. Now grate the gourd. Keep in mind that only the soft part grate it. After this, press the grated gourd lightly by hand and remove its water. This will make barfi quickly and taste will also be good.

2. Boil milk
Take a heavy bottom pan or flesh and put milk in it and keep it on medium flame to boil. As long as the milk comes to a boil, keep stirring the cream that is freezing in it so that the milk does not come from the bottom.

3. Gourd cooking

Now add grated gourd to boiling milk and cook while stirring continuously. Gourd may take about 15-20 minutes to melt milk well in milk and mix. Keep stirring in between so that the milk does not appear in the bottom.

4. Thick milk

When the milk becomes thick well and remains about half, then add sugar to it. Milk will be slightly thinner as soon as sugar is added, so cook it for more than 10 minutes. Now add green cardamom powder to it, which will bring both fragrance and taste.

5. Put ghee and dry fruits

Now add ghee to it and mix well. Also add chopped cashew nuts. This will give light greasy and nice taste in Barfi.

6. Preparation for the era
When the mixture thickened and started coming together and leaving the pan, then turn off the gas. Now put light ghee in a plate and put the prepared mixture in it and spread it evenly. Sprinkle pistachios and saffron threads on top.

7. Let barfi freeze
Now keep it for at least 2-3 hours to cool down and freeze. After freezing, cut the shape of your choice with a knife. Just ready, delicious gourd barfi made in grandmother’s style.

Some special tips

Always take the gourd fresh and green, this will bring sweetness and freshness in Barfi. If you like creamy taste, then you can also add 1/2 cup mawa (khoya). It is necessary to squeeze the gourd water well or else it may take time to freeze barfi. Keep Barfi in airtight compartment, it will run comfortably in the fridge for 4-5 days.