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Ingredients:
- 800 gms Sugar
- 1 tsp Rose Water
- ½ tsp Alum powder
- 1 kg White Pumpkin
- 3-4 drops Kewda essence
- 2 tsp Kitchen Lime (chuna)
Method:
- Dissolve alum in half cup water and keep aside.
- Dissolve lime in 1 litre water, strain with a clean cloth, twice if required.
- Peel pumpkin, discard seeds, mushy centre and cut into pieces/squares.
- Prick all over with a metal skewer or fork.
- Put pieces in lime water. Soak for 2-3 hrs.
- Drain, wash under clean running water for 2-3 minutes.
- Put in a bowl, sprinkle alum water, shake to coat all pieces evenly.
- Boil some fresh water. Add the pieces to boiling water until they are kind of transparent.
- Make a syrup of sugar and water, till 2 1/2 thread consistency.
- Put transparent pumpkin pieces in syrup, boil till syrup becomes thick again.
- Keep covered with a mesh, overnight. Keep moving the pieces every hour.
- Take out the pieces and boil the chasni and again make the chasni of 2tar (do not add extra water or sugar).
- Add the pieces back and reboil for 3-4 minutes.
- Drain out excess syrup, sprinkle essence and rose water.
