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Showing posts with label desert. Show all posts

Lapsi : Sweet Porridge of cracked wheat

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Posted on Monday, March 19, 2012 7:46 PM | By: Degchi

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Blogging Marathon # 14


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Lapsi is a sweet cracked wheat delicious delicacy. This is the most auspicious offering to the God in all the religious rituals and ceremonies of the Marwari's and Rajasthani community. Lapsi is to western Indian states (especially in Rajasthan and Gujarat) as sweet pongal to Tamilnadu.
Whenever I prepare this I remember my mother's advice that each grain of wheat should be visible as pearl. The following recipe is a quick and fool proof recipe cooked in the pressure cooker.

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Ingredients



  • 1 cup coarse cracked wheat
  • 1 cup Jaggery
  • 1/2 cup ghee (clarified butter)
  • 2.5 cup water
  • 1/4th teaspoon cardamom powder
  • For garnish- slivered almonds and coconut
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Method


  1. In a pot add water and jaggery. Let it boil till the jaggery melts and mix in the water. Strain the syrup if you see any impurities of jaggery floating in the water. Keep this jaggery syrup aside.
  2. Heat the ghee and cracked wheat in a pressure cooker and roast them on medium heat till it turns golden brown.
  3. Add the jaggery syrup in roasted cracked wheat and pressure cook it to 4-5 whistles.
  4. Let it rest for 5 minutes then open the pressure cooker.
  5. Add cardamom powder,almonds and coconut and serve hot.
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Variation-

  1. You can use sugar instead of jaggery
  2. You can replace some portion of water with milk if you like to eat is as milky porridge.
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      Lychee Gulla

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      Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2012 6:31 PM | By: Degchi

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      Blogging Marathon # 14

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      It is spring time again !!  I thought of making something refreshing to match the season. As the temperature warms up, cool desserts soothe and quench your thirst. I am delighted to share a recipe of my own “Lychee Gulla” with you all. It has the looks of an Indian dessert rasagulla, hence the name lychee gulla. It is a quick and easy mithai or dessert. You can make it with either fresh lychees or canned ones. Nowadays lychees are in season so I would suggest to make it with fresh fruit.

       

      Ingredients

       

      • 20 lychees
      • 1 cup rabdi
      • 2 tablespoon of Chopped blanched Almonds
      • 2 tablespoon of Chopped blanched Pistachio

      Check out the rabdi recipe here-

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      If you have time you can make rabdi at home or you can use store brought or ready mix packet rabdi, the choice is yours.

      Quick tip

      -Instead of rabdi you can use kulfi or any ice-cream.

       

      Method

       

      • Peel and deseed the lychees.
      • Add the almonds and pistachio to 1/2 cup of rabdi to make stuffing.
      • Stuff the lychees with rabdi and dry fruit mix.
      • Serve chilled with a dollop of rabdi on it
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