Lapsi [ Broken Wheat Pongal ]

Ingredients:

• Broken wheat - 2 cups
• Milk / water - 4 cups
• Sugar or Red Jaggery - 2 1/2 cup
• Fresh ghee - 1 cup
• Cashew nuts, almonds - 1/4 cup [finely grated]
• Cardamom powder - 1 1/2 tsp
• Cinnamon - 4 [small pieces]

Method :

Take one kadai or a small cooker, heat the ghee, add cinnamon and stir. Add broken wheat and stir again till it turns into light brown colour. Pressure cook the broken wheat adding either water or milk to soften the same. Allow the wheat to cook upto 2 whistles from the cooker. When the cooker becomes cool, mix sugar or jaggery and cook in medium flame. Add remaining ghee and cook in low flame till the jaggery or sugar melts and ghee gets separated. Add cardamom powder and grated nuts. Serve hot as desert in lunch or dinner.