Bottle gourd Payasam

Ingredients:

• Bottle gourd pieces - 1 cup
• Milk - 1 1/2 cup
• Water - 1/2 cup
• Rice - 1/4 cup
• Jaggery - 3/4 cup
• Cashews - 1 tbsp
• Raisins - 1 tbsp
• Elachi - pinch
• Ghee - 2 tbsp

Method:

• Fry cashews, raisins in ghee and keep it aside.
• Peel bottle gourd and cut into small pieces.
• Take bottle gourd pieces and water into a vessel.
• Grind Rice with little milk and make a paste.
• When Bottle gourd pieces are cooked, add milk and boil for 5 minutes.
• Now add rice paste and boil it for another 10 min.
• Finally add elachi, fried cashews and raisins.