Uttarakhand Roat Kumaoni Jaggery Wheat Festive Sweet Prasad

Cuisine: Uttarakhand Category: Dessert Prep: 5 min Cook: 20 min Serves: 4 Difficulty: Easy 🌿 Vegetarian

Thick wheat flour pudding sweetened with jaggery and cooked in ghee — the festive sacred sweet of Kumaon prepared for Harela, Navratri and other celebrations.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Dissolve grated jaggery in 1.5 cups warm water.
  2. Stir until fully dissolved. Strain through a sieve. Keep warm.
  3. Heat 3 tbsp ghee in a heavy pan on medium-low.
  4. Add fennel seeds — sizzle 10 seconds.
  5. Add 1 cup wheat flour. Stir immediately. Roast on medium-low, stirring continuously without stopping, for 10 to 12 minutes until the flour turns deep golden and smells intensely of toasted wheat and ghee.
  6. Do not stop stirring at any point.
  7. Pour the warm jaggery water carefully into the roasting flour — it will spatter.
  8. Stir vigorously and continuously.
  9. Cook on medium heat, stirring constantly, for 4 to 5 minutes until the mixture thickens and pulls away cleanly from the sides of the pan.
  10. Add cardamom powder. Stir. Add ghee-fried cashews. Stir.
  11. The roat should hold its shape when pressed on a plate and be dense, moist and fudgy.
  12. Serve warm. Can also be pressed into a flat round and cut into pieces when cool.

Recipe from samaiyal.com — Authentic Indian Recipes