How to make Gur papdi - Gol papdi is a Gujarati sweet dish prepared using wheat flour, jaggery and ghee with cardamom flavour. This sweet is usually made in winter and healthier choice too.
Jaggery and ghee based sweets are very popular in India. Before all the refined white sugar sweets took over, these are our traditional sweets.
Looking for more of these? Check out some of my favorite jaggery based sweets ulundu urundai recipe, thengai therattipal recipe, adhirasam recipe as well as my sattu ladoo recipe.
I was not aware of this sweet until Ume Rubab Mirza, a reader friend from Karachi sent me this recipe. Thank you 🙏
Referred to Tarla dalal's video though for measures as the recipe sent by the reader was in grams.
I got help from my friend sangeeta for translating too. Knew it would be tasting great with wheat flour, jaggery and ghee.
And it is true, it was really a great sweet, quick to make with more natural ingredients like wheat flour, ghee and jaggery (gur).
Nothing fancy but amazing sweet that can be prepared for a quick sweet craving or even for kids, this is really good.
My notes
Nuts are added as garnish but it adds a nice crunch and balances the sweet. Make sure to not skip nuts.
I have garnished with nuts, almond here, but you can mix it in the sweet too.
Thought it may be difficult for cutting, so I garnished the nuts.
Used multigrain atta and had no issues, so you can also try that. You can also try with any of the millet flour mixed along with atta.
But the nuts, along with this sweet gur papdi is amazing. I would recommend almond as I have used here or even cashew nuts, as in the recipe.
Since I have used multi grain atta, the ghee quantity it needed was less.
Using regular atta may take more ghee as I got feedback, so updated the recipe with extra 1 tablespoon ghee (still you may see less in video)
Recipe card
How to make gur papdi
Ingredients
- ½ cup Wheat flour
- ¼ cup + 2 tablespoon Jaggery Gur
- 3 & ½ tbsp Ghee
- 1 Cardamom powdered
- 10 Almonds silvered
Instructions
- Heat a pan with ghee and roast ½ cup wheat flour until golden. Do it patiently in medium flame until the colour changes and it turns fragrant.
- Once the flour is golden in colour, switch off the flame. Add grated jaggery to it along with cardamom powder. Make sure to use only finely grated jaggery with out any lumps.
- Once the jaggery melts, transfer to a greased plate and level it. Do not stir more than needed, otherwise will crumble. Garnish with nuts.
- Cut into desired shape, I cut into squares.
Video
Notes
- I have halved the recipe as I wanted to try less. Otherwise, if you want more, you can double the recipe (wheat flour 1 cup, ghee 6 tbsp, 1 tbsp, jaggery - ¾ cup.
- Take care not to burn the flour, otherwise it will be spoilt.
- I powdered the jaggery in mixer. You can grate too. But make sure to grate / powder. otherwise, it will not easily melt in the heat.
- I used a butter paper over the mixture and leveled. Be quick in spreading.
- Do not stir for long time after jaggery melts, transfer it to tray soon.
- You can add the nuts along jaggery.
How to prepare gur papdi step by step method:
- Heat a pan with ghee and roast ½ cup wheat flour until golden. Do it patiently in medium flame until the colour changes and it turns fragrant.
- Once the flour is golden in colour, switch off the flame. Add grated jaggery to it along with cardamom powder. Make sure to use only finely grated jaggery with out any lumps.
- Once the jaggery melts, transfer to a greased plate and level it. Do not stir more than needed, otherwise will crumble. Garnish with nuts.
- Cut into desired shape, I cut into squares.
Enjoy the sweet, you can make it when ever there's a sweet craving, that easy!
Supriya Sivanandhan says
Absolutely delicious !! May i know the shelf life for this ?
RajeeSam says
Yummy sweet that too with wheat flour very easy and nice recipe raji thanks
Raks anand says
Since this has no milk or coconut, shelf live should be at least a week.
Raks anand says
Thank you 🙂 Do try it.
Archana Brian says
Thanks for the recipe! Will surely try it tomorrow. Also wanted to give a feedback on your app.. I downloaded it but has lot of glitches .. have uninstalled it for now.. would love to download it again if you are able to fix all the glitches.
Ani Paul says
The pics look too irresistable ,and very easy recipe with very few ingredients.Love the fact that I can prepare this sweet without sugar for my kids.
Raks anand says
Let me know how it turned out to be 🙂
I am sorry I don't have any App. 🙁 Please don't install any unless otherwise I say it in my blog.
Raks anand says
Thank you 🙂
Subashini N says
As usual looks yum and beautiful clicks Raji. Looks very easy to make too. Will try sometime soon.
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Also I am loving the new look of your site. Great work.
Vaishnavi S Rao says
I was craving a mid day sweet something and stumbled upon this. Used fine palm sugar instead of jaggery. Loved the taste .. It didn't set into pieces for me, but who cares.. Tasted lovely. Thanks!
Mac says
I also add dry ginger powder 1 tbsp when roasting wheat flour as it is good in winter.
Unknown says
Hi....did it today exactly as shown....it came out like kamarkattu( very hard). Can you tell me where I would have gone wrong?
Kajal Odedra says
Hey Raks anand,
It's very commom sweet in our gujrat & our gujrati Liked very mach...
we called this sweet as "PAAK".
But Thanks for the recipe! Yummy sweet that too with wheat flour very easy and nice recipe....
Kajal Odedra says
Hey Raks anand....
It is very common sweet in our gujrat & our gujrati Liked very much....., but Thanks for the recipe!
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Vidya says
Hi today i made gur papdi but somehow it turned out crumply.. could not make fine slices. Could u please let me know ghee in cup measurement?
Thank you so much
Raks Anand says
2 tbsp = 1/8 cup. Let me know if you need further conversion.
Jaya Gupta says
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