The BEST Lapsi Recipe! A perfectly tasty and happy sweet dish! Fada lapsi is a conventional Gujarati sweet made of broken wheat (fada or dalia), clarified butter (ghee), sugar, and flavored with cardamom powder, garnished with cut almonds and cashews. You’ll love it!
Gujarati Fada Lapsi Recipe:
Lapsi recipe is such a celebration classic and it’s around the time I at long last got around to sharing a recipe!
It is regularly made during festivals like Dhanteras, Diwali, Raksha Bandhan, Holi, Janmashtami, etc. It is considered a promising flag (‘shagun’ in Hindi) thus it’s made for pre-wedding ceremonies. Many make it on any special occasion like birthdays, buying a new car/house, getting a job, the naming ceremony for babies, etc. That time lapsi is offered to God to begin with and then eaten by family members.
Not only in Gujarat, but Lapsi moreover broadly made in other western states of India like Rajasthan and Maharashtra. The method and ingredients are slightly changed here and there like sugar or jaggery as a sweetener, milk or water, etc. But the main ingredient is always broken wheat (broken wheat or dalia or fada).
Region by region it has diverse names. Fada ni lapsi in Gujarati, broken wheat sheera or dalia sheera, or lapshi in Marathi.
This broken wheat dessert is so good and certainly a sweet that both young and old alike will love!
The primary ingredient for Lapsi – Broken wheat
There are two sorts of broken wheat accessible. Once is coarse and the second is fine. For making fada lapsi, use a coarse variety of broken wheat. Fine verity is utilized for making kansar.
How to make Lapsi Recipe?
1) Warm the ghee in a pan on medium heat. Once hot add cloves, cinnamon stick and dalia (fada).
2) Blend and start roasting. In the starting, fada will absorb all the ghee.
3) On another stove, warm the water till it starts stewing. You can do this in a microwave.
4) Keep mixing continually and proceed broiling till it becomes aromatic and light brown in color. It took me approximately 5 minutes. As it gets simmered, you will get a nice toasted smell and also take note that ghee begins to overflow out and starts bubbling.
5) Now include hot water and bring it to a boil.
6) Cover the pan, lower the heat to medium-low, and cook till it gets cooked and soft.
7) In between, you can open the top and blend to check it is not sticking to the bottom of the pan. If the water dries out and is still not cooked at that point add some more warm water. This is how it looks after 10 minutes.
8) This is how it looks after 20 minutes. At this time fada looks soft and cooked, but there is still a few moisture left.
9) So at this time, keep mixing continually and cook till it gets to be almost dry.
10) Now add sugar and cardamom powder.
11) Blend, as the sugar melts it becomes runny again. Keep mixing and cooking until it gets to be almost dry again. It takes approximately 5-6 minutes.
12) Now turn off the stove and decorate with cut almonds and cashew nuts.
