Dudhi Rabdi (bottle gourd rabdi)

Ingredients
bottle gourd - 1/2 kg
milk - 1/2 cup
condensed milk - 3/4 cup
cardamom powder/rose essence
chopped almonds and pistachio and raisins


Method
Heat ghee in a pan and add chopped almonds, pistachio and raisins and fry for few seconds. Remove and keep aside and in the same pan add grated dudhi/bottle gourd, condensed milk, milk and cook till it becomes thick. Add cardamom powder. When done remove in a bowl and garnish with fried nuts.

Rabdi

Ingredients

Full cream milk – 1 litre

Sugar – 1 cup

Cardamom powder – ¼ tsp

Nutmeg  powder - ¼ tsp

Saffron – 12 to 15 strands

Method

Heat milk in a heavy bottomed pan and cook till it becomes half in quantity. Cook on a medium flame.

 While the milk is boiling, keep on continuously stirring it and scrape the bottom and edges,

Add sugar, saffron, nutmeg powder and cardamom powder and simmer on a low flame for another 20 to 25 minutes till it thickens  and becomes ¼ in quantity.

Garnish with almonds and pistachio.