Lapsi – (Diwali Recipe)

Diwali is one festival that is marked with fun and laughter.   The splendor and cheerfulness encountered during the five days of Diwali festival are unmatched by any other festival in the Hindu calendar.  Lights, crackers, diwali greetings and sweets are just but a few of the goodies that characterize this festival.

Diwali Sweet Delicacies

The types of sweets feasted on during Diwali are of a wide variety depending on taste and culture of different regions, such as in South India mysore pak and pongal are common while in the Northern parts of India Ladoos and Lapsi are common. Let us look at one of the special diwali recipes, Lapsi.

Lapsi Recipe

A sweet and easy to make dish that is, prepared during Diwali.  

Ingredients

• broken wheat,
• hot water,
• almond,
• sugar,
• raisins,
• cardamom
• powder and
• ghee

Preparation

1. Soak the raisins in water

2. Heat the ghee at a high temperature in a heavy pan, add wheat   then cook till pink-brown, then add hot water and cover partly at reduce heat

3. When the wheat is cooked and almost dry put on ghee, sugar and water then stir.

4. Cook for 10 minutes under low temperature, till the ghee  oozes  from the sides of the pan

Diwali celebration will surely be complete and sweeter with this Lapsi Recipe. Cheers!