Lavang Latika recipe with step by step pictures. This is a sweet which is made by the Bengali's during Durga Puja and Diwali festive times. It is so easy to make and taste really yummy.
Lavang Latika
This is one dish which you can never go wrong with. It is so easy to make and taste really yummy. It is pretty much like my suryakala or chandrakala. Sweet is not at all hard as you think. It is so easy to make. This stores well for a week in fridge as well. So you can enjoy it whenever you want. You can use my 7 mins khoya recipe. so you can make this sweet from start to finish in under 1 hour.
Ingredients for Lavang Latika
- Oil for deep frying
- Cloves as needed
Dough:
- All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 cup
- Ghee - 2 tblspn
- Salt a pinch
- Water as needed
For Filling:
- Khoya / Mawa - ¾ cup
- Sugar - 2.5 tblspn
- Nuts - 2 tblspn ( i used mixed nuts)
- Cardamom Powder - ½ tsp
For Sugar Syrup:
- Sugar - 1 cup
- Water - ½ cup
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..
How to Make Lavang Latika
- Take flour, salt and ghee in a bowl and rub it well till it resembles coarse breadcrumbs.
- Add water little by little and make a dough.
- Let the dough rest till you get everything ready.
- Now mix all ingredients for filling. Take your dough and divide it into equal portion. Now take each portion and roll it into a thin poori.
- Spoon filling in the centre and bring both sides together and cover with other side as well, so it resembles a parcel. Secure the top with a clove.
- Make the sugar syrup. Take sugar and water in a pan and heat it, bring it to a boil and simmer till it reaches ones string consistency.
- Now heat oil for deep frying, drop the parcels in oil, fry on medium heat till it gets golden. Drain it and add it to the syrup.
- Toss well in the syrup and let it sit for 3 to 4 mins.
- Drain and let it cool. Serve.
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Lavang Latika Recipe
Lavang Latika recipe with step by step pictures. This is a sweet which is made by the Bengalis during Durga Puja and Diwali festive times. It is so easy to make and taste really yummy.
Ingredients
- Oil for deep frying
- Cloves as needed
- For Dough:
- 1 cup All Purpose Flour / Maida
- 2 tablespoon Ghee
- Salt a pinch
- Water as needed
- For Filling:
- ¾ cup Khoya / Mawa
- 2.5 tablespoon Sugar
- 2 tablespoon Nuts
- ½ teaspoon Cardamom Powder
- For Sugar Syrup:
- 1 cup Sugar
- ½ cup Water
Instructions
- Take flour, salt and ghee in a bowl and rub it well till it resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Add water little by little and make a dough.
- Let the dough rest till you get everything ready.
- Now mix all ingredients for filling. Now take your dough and divide it into equal portion. Now take each portion and roll it into a thin poori.
- Spoon filling in the center and bring both sides together and cover with other side as well, so it resembles a parcel. Secure the top with a clove.
- Now make the sugar syrup. Take sugar and water in a pan and heat it, bring it to a boil and simmer till it reaches ones string consistency.
- Now heat oil for deep frying, drop the parcels in oil, fry on medium heat till it gets golden. Drain it and add it to the syrup.Toss well in the syrup and let it sit for 3 to 4 mins.
- Drain and let it cool. Serve.
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 216kcalCarbohydrates: 41gProtein: 2gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 10mgSodium: 2mgPotassium: 34mgFiber: 1gSugar: 29gVitamin A: 1IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 5mgIron: 1mg
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Lavang Latika Step by Step
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Lets make the dough..Take flour in a bowl |
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| add little salt |
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| Add in ghee |
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| mix well using your hands |
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| now it resembles breadcrumbs |
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| add in water slowly |
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| Make a dough |
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| Set aside |
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| Make filling..take khoya |
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| add in cardamom powder and nuts |
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| add in sugar |
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| mix well..and set aside |
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| Divide the dough into equal balls |
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| Take a ball |
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| roll it into poori |
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| spoon in the filling |
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| fold it like this |
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| then like this |
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| Fold it like this |
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| and this |
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| secure it with a clove |
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| now it is done |
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| Now make the syrup...Take sugar in a pan |
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| add in water |
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| mix well |
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| Bring it to a boil and cook till it reaches one string consistency |
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| when you lift the spoon from syrup, it should form a string like |
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| now deep fry the parcels |
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| fry on low heat till golden |
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| remove it and add it to the syrup |
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| toss well |
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| Serve |
Preetha Jayakumar
Hi arthi, I tried this yesterday came out well but the thing is whenever I make sugar syrup for tat one string consistency am not getting it properly and wen i switched off the flame it gets crystalise within a minute dunno where am doing wrong. Pls help me to do correctly
Aarthi
@Preetha Jayakumarjust heat it back with little water.it will turn liquid