A winter delicacy made of nutritious gourd (lauki) and basic ingredients so give this warm winter dessert recipe a try and share your feedback.

Watch this Masala TV video to learn how to make Lauki ka Halwa,Prawn Tawa Biryani and Masala Chai Recipes.This show of Dawat with Chef Abida Baloch aired on 7 December 2019.

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Lauki ka Halwa:
Ingredients:
Bottle gourd (Shredded) 500gm
Clarified butter ½ cup
Cardamoms 3-4
Milk 2 cups
Sugar 1-1/2 cup
Whole dried milk 150gm
Almonds 2-3 tbsp
Pistachios 2-3 tbsp
Edible silver leaf as required
Green food color as required

Method:
Boil bottle gourd in milk. When milk dries out then heat clarified butter in separate pan then add cardamoms and let them splutter now add bottle gourd and cook well. Now add sugar and cook. Add food color, half nuts, half whole dried milk and cook for 1 minute. Garnish with remaining nuts, edible silver leaf, whole dried milk and serve.

Prawn Tawa Biryani:

Ingredients:

Prawns ½ kg
Boiled rice 2 cups
Oil ¼ cup
Yogurt ½ cup
Chopped coriander ½ cup
Green chilies 6
Chopped tomatoes 2
Brown onion 4 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp
Red chili powder 1-1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds 1 tsp
Screw pine essence 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
All spice 1 tsp
Coriander powder 1 tsp
Turmeric ½ tsp
Yellow food color ½ tsp
Lemon juice 1tbsp

Method:
Fry prawns with salt. Add oil on tawa then add ginger, garlic, cumin and let them splutter. Now add tomatoes, red chilies, turmeric, and coriander, salt and cook well. When tomatoes get tender then add yogurt, half green coriander, half green chilies and fry them. Now add boiled rice, brown onion, yellow food color, screw pine essence and let it simmer for 5 minutes. Then add remaining coriander, green chilies, lemon juice and serve.

Masala Chai:
Ingredients:
Green cardamoms 1-2
Cloves 1-2
Water 1 cup
Ginger slices 1-2
Milk 1 cup
Cinnamon ½ stick
Black tea 1 tbsp
Honey or sugar 2–3 tsp

Method:
Add all ingredients in water except milk and cook for 5 minutes. In last add milk and cook then add honey or sugar and serve.