While pumpkin is commonly used in savory dishes in India, it can truly surprise dessert lovers in many ways. This festive season, try these pumpkin sweets.
Pumpkin Halwa carries a warm, sweet, pudding-like comfort coming from slow-cooking grated pumpkin with ghee, milk, and sugar.
This delicious South Indian dessert is made with yellow or red pumpkin (‘parangikai’in Tamil), milk or coconut milk, jaggery or sugar, and dry fruits
For this fudge-like sweet, you need to slow-cook grated or pureed yellow pumpkin with milk, ghee, sugar, and aromatic spices.
To add an Indian twist to the Mughlai Shahi Tukda, simply add pureed pumpkin directly into the creamy milk base.
To make this, just combine grated or pureed yellow pumpkin with sweeteners, ghee, coconut, and warm spices. The result is a perfect festive treat.
As delicious as it sounds, a mawa pumpkin roll is a rich, delicious sweet made by wrapping mawa-nut filling inside sugar-syrup-coated pumpkin slices.
This festive Indian fusion dessert combines the traditional, slow-reduced sweet milk pudding with the natural sweetness of pumpkin.