Bidisha's Corner

Friday 20 February 2015

Lavang Latika

It is a dessert to be served post meal or as a snack when visited by guest.
The name itself describes the type of sweet, lavang means clove, clove pods are used in this sweet, and its aroma lingers at every bite of it.

INGREDIENTS:
Maida (2 cups).
Khoya (milk dried) (1 cup).
Sugar (3 cups).
Salt to taste.
Lavang/ Clove pods as required.
Oil for frying. 
Ghee (2 TBs).

PROCEDURE:
In a big bowl, mix maida with pinch of sugar and salt and add ghee to it and mix well, now add water as required and knead it to a neat and tight dough.
In the meanwhile khoya is to be mixed with a cup of sugar and knead to a tight dough and kept aside.
Now divide the maida dough to small small dumplings and roll each dumpling flat on rolling pin.
Now add a spoonful of sweeten khoya in the middle of the flat rolled dumpling dough.
Now fold the dough from two sides, then from another two sides, and insert lavang / clove so that it can hold the dough from opening and spreading out.
Now continue same with all the other dumplings.
Make sugar syrup with 2 cup sugar and 1 cup water and boil till it becomes sticky.
Now heat oil in a wok and simmer it, slowly add stuffed maida rolls and fry them golden brown.
Now slowly remove them on absorbent paper and then in sugar syrup, follow the same for others.
Remove from sugar syrup and allow it to cool.
Serve and enjoy lingering aroma of clove with rich khoya wrapped and dipped in sugar syrup.



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