As I mentioned cooking is my hobby. Most of the time I try to make some thing different in our meals.
But, today I remember old style family festival desert Since decades this sweet made and served on very special days. Like weddings, new arrival in families, birthdays, wedding Anniversaries.travelling day, Diwali (light of festival) Holi (festival of colour) and many more.
Lapsee is a delicious sweet dish as well as very healthy.This is made with cracked wheat,pure refined butter (ghee), saffron. green/brown cardamom and molasses.
To make this dish ingredients required as:
1 cup) cracked wheat
3 cups boiling water
1/2 cup liquid unsulphate molasses
3 tbsp. refined butter (ghee)
1 tbsp. cracked and cleaned freshly pound brown/green cardamom
2 tbsp cracked pistachios
Direction to cook
On medium temperature of burner put a medium heavy saucepan heat ghee add cracked wheat and continuously stir for 4/5 minutes add saffron mix it well lower the heat add boiling water and liquid molasses stir and mix it properly and cover. Let it cook on the low heat for 30 minutes however in interval stir it. when it is cooked wheat will be very soft and it will separate ghee and will look golden brown colour now add cracked cardamom half of the pistachios. Let it rest for a while on the hot plate at least for 10 minutes.Off the temperature of the burner.
Serve in a beautiful serving round bowl. Garnish with remaining cracked pistachios.
Generally this dish is served with main meal lunch/dinner.
