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Must Try Diwali Recipe: How To Make Bengali Style Lavang Latika

Diwali is the most exciting festival of all times. It signifies family, food, fun and festivities. The best part about Diwali is the preparation of delicious delicacies. This Diwali I am planning to make traditional Bengali recipe which not only looks stunning but tastes also amazing.

Lavan Latika Preparation time – 15 minutes Cooking time- 1-hour Yield- 22lavang-latika-recipe

Ingredients For Lavang Latika

For the outer cover

  • 2 cups maida
  • 4 tbsp melted ghee
  • pinch of salt

For the sugar syrup

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup water

For the stuffing

  • 300 gm mawa or khoya
  • ½ cup dry fruit powder (almonds, cashew nuts, walnuts and pistachios)
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp cardamom powder

Oil for deep frying
22 cloves to seal the pockets

Procedure For Bengali Style Lavang Latika

  1. In a wide bowl mix all cover ingredients, add a little water and knead the soft dough. Knead it for 5 minutes and cover with damp cloth. Keep it aside.
  2. For sugar syrup mix water and sugar in a wide pan cook till sugar dissolves completely.
  3. For stuffing add mawa in a nonstick pan stir continuously. Add dry fruit powder, sugar and cardamom powder roast till mixture become little dry. Let the mixture cool completely.
  4. Take kneaded dough knead it again lightly. Make the equal size of 22 balls.
  5. Take one ball roll it like small poori (not so thin or not too thick)lavang-latika-recipe
  6. Place a tbsp of filling in the centre of poori.lavang-latika-recipe-what-she-likes
  7. Now fold one side of poori.IMG_20151106_200401
  8. Fold the second side of poori.lavang-latika-recipe-what-she-likes
  9. Now bring the other two sides together and overlap it.IMG_20151106_200557
  10. Put the clove in the centre so that filling will not open while frying.lavang-latika-recipe-what-she-likes
  11. Now deep fry till it becomes golden brown.lavang-latika-recipe-what-she-likes
  12. Drop the lavang latikas inside the sugar syrup, let this soak in the sugar syrup for 5 minutes.IMG_20151106_200841
  13. Take it out from the syrup and arrange it on a plate.lavang-latika-recipe-what-she-likes
  14. Repeat the procedure for remaining dough and stuffingIMG_20151106_201036
  15. It will stay fresh for 10 days.

Looking for the video of the same recipe. You can check out details Lavang Latika recipe here.

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Written by Bhakti D

Bhakti is a dedicated full-time certified yoga instructor and follows yogic teachings as a way of life rather than a fitness goal. Yoga has helped her lead stress-free life for herself as well as has a calming influence on the family. After she realized the goodness of Yoga, she decided to pursue Yoga more seriously by building on Yoga related competencies. She has done a number of classrooms as well as one to one teaching sessions in Mumbai, helping her clientele achieve a happy and healthy lifestyle.

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