Watermelon rind halwa/pudding

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Working hard on waste management in society. Trying new practices how we can reduce waste.Doing composting at home for more than an year and encouraging people.When we eat watermelon throw a large amount of Watermelon rinds which contains vitamins. So started making different varieties of dishes out of rinds.
After trying out watermelon rind  curry and watermelon rind raita,here is the dessert recipe. Ohhh I just loved this halwa.

Ingredients:

2 cup grated watermelon rind

1 cup milk

1 cup sugar(+ as needed)

3 to 4 tbsp ghee (clarified butter)

1/4 tsp cardamom powder

Method:

1. Peel only hard layer of rinds and grate them.

2. Heat ghee in a pan and add cardamom powder.

3. Add grated rinds and mix well.Saute and cook for 5 min.

 4. Add milk and let it cook until all milk get absorbed.It may take 10 to 15 min on medium flame.Saute occasionally.

 5.  After this I too added some pieces of watermelon that is totally optional.You can see some red color watermelon pieces in below image.Cook for some more minutes until mixture start releasing ghee.

6. Then add sugar.Cook until all sugar get dissolve and you see nice transparent color.

7. Garnish with chopped dry fruits. The yummy halwa is ready to serve.

Related post:

Watermelon Rind curry

Watermelon rind raita/dip

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