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Pumpkin Kheer

Hetal Kamdar
Pumpkin Kheer | Kaddu Ki Kheer with step-by-step pictures and recipe will guide you to make this delicious kheer at home. Pumpkin Kheer is one of the sweetest delicacies that can be relished during Navratri or any other fasting or Vrat.
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Dessert, Indian Sweet
Cuisine Indian
Servings 4
Calories 450 kcal

Ingredients
 
 

  • 1 small size pumpkin
  • 1- liter full-fat milk
  • 2-3 cardamom pods
  • 1 cup of sugar
  • 1 tsp ghee
  • a handful of almond and Pistachios flakes
  • a handful of dry rose petals

Instructions
 

  • Firstly, peel the skin of the pumpkin and scoop out all the seeds from inside.
  • Now grate pumpkin using a grater and keep it aside.
  • Heat ghee in a pan and add grated pumpkin it.
  • Now cook pumpkin in the ghee for a minute till it becomes slight in color.
  • Add full-fat milk in the same pan and bring it to a boil. Stir continuously at regular intervals do that milk doesn't stick at the bottom.
  • Add sugar to the boiling milk pumpkin, mix it well and stir.
  • Open cardamom pods and crush them finely.
  • Add cardamom powder in the kheer.
  • Boil the kheer further for another 2 minutes on a medium flame.
  • Lastly switch off the flame once the pumpkin becomes really soft and milk thickens.

Nutrition

Calories: 450kcalCarbohydrates: 85gProtein: 11gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 28mgSodium: 112mgPotassium: 1497mgFiber: 2gSugar: 72gVitamin A: 29349IUVitamin C: 31mgCalcium: 358mgIron: 3mg
Keyword Pumpkin Kheer, Vrat ki Kheer
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