Lapsee ( Cracked Wheat Pudding)

Total Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup cracked wheat
• 1 1/2 cups sugar or 2 cups jaggery
• 1 cup ghee
• 1 tablespoon chopped almonds (mixed) or 1 tablespoon pistachios (mixed)
• 3 cups water
• 1/2 teaspoon cardamom, powdered

Recipe

• 1 warm ghee in a heavy pan, add wheat germ.
• 2 stir and cook till germ is golden in color and aroma exudes.
• 3 meanwhile melt sugar or jaggery in 1 cup water.
• 4 keep aside hot.
• 5 boil and add remaining water to roasted wheat germ.
• 6 stir gently now, and cook till the grain of the germ is soft on pressing.
• 7 now add sugar or jaggery, add cardamom and chopped dry fruit.
• 8 stir and simmer covered, stirring occasionally.
• 9 cook till ghee separates along the sides.
• 10 serve hot.