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    Home » Recipes » Indian Diwali Sweets

    How to make Gur papdi, Gujarati Gol papdi recipe

    January 25, 2017 by Raks Anand 19 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    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.

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    Gur papdi | Gol papdi

    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.

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    • How to prepare gur papdi step by step method:

    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.

    gur papdi | Gol papdi
    Gol papdi recipe

    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)

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    How to make gur papdi

    Gur papdi is a sweet dish prepared using wheat flour, jaggery and ghee with cardamom flavour. This sweet is usually made in winter.
    Course Sweets
    Cuisine Indian
    Prep Time 5 minutes
    Cook Time 10 minutes
    Resting time 10 minutes
    Total Time 25 minutes
    Servings 12 squares
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • ½ cup Wheat flour
    • ¼ cup + 2 tablespoon Jaggery Gur
    • 3 & ½ tbsp Ghee
    • 1 Cardamom powdered
    • 10 Almonds silvered
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    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.

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    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.
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    How to prepare gur papdi step by step method:

    1. 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.step-1-roast
    2. 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.step-2-sweeten
    3. Once the jaggery melts, transfer to a greased plate and level it. Do not stir more than needed, otherwise will crumble. Garnish with nuts.step-3-set
    4. Cut into desired shape, I cut into squares.step-4--gur-papdi

    Enjoy the sweet, you can make it when ever there’s a sweet craving, that easy!

    gol papdi or gur papdi

    Other Indian Diwali Sweets

    • Sesame Gajak recipe | Diwali sweets
    • Thengai therattipal, thengai therattupal | Traditional Diwali sweets
    • Carrot Mysore pak recipe, Diwali sweets
    • Apple halwa recipe, Without milk | Glossy, tangy

    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Supriya Sivanandhan

      January 25, 2017 at 11:56 am

      Absolutely delicious !! May i know the shelf life for this ?

      Reply
    2. RajeeSam

      January 25, 2017 at 12:10 pm

      Yummy sweet that too with wheat flour very easy and nice recipe raji thanks

      Reply
    3. Raks anand

      January 25, 2017 at 1:27 pm

      Since this has no milk or coconut, shelf live should be at least a week.

      Reply
    4. Raks anand

      January 25, 2017 at 1:28 pm

      Thank you 🙂 Do try it.

      Reply
    5. Archana Brian

      January 25, 2017 at 2:32 pm

      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.

      Reply
    6. Ani Paul

      January 25, 2017 at 2:44 pm

      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.

      Reply
    7. Raks anand

      January 26, 2017 at 12:17 am

      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.

      Reply
    8. Raks anand

      January 26, 2017 at 12:17 am

      Thank you 🙂

      Reply
    9. Subashini N

      January 26, 2017 at 9:44 am

      As usual looks yum and beautiful clicks Raji. Looks very easy to make too. Will try sometime soon.

      Reply
    10. Subashini N

      January 26, 2017 at 9:45 am

      Also I am loving the new look of your site. Great work.

      Reply
    11. Vaishnavi S Rao

      January 26, 2017 at 12:53 pm

      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!

      Reply
    12. Mac

      February 07, 2017 at 1:24 pm

      I also add dry ginger powder 1 tbsp when roasting wheat flour as it is good in winter.

      Reply
    13. Unknown

      February 07, 2017 at 1:24 pm

      Hi....did it today exactly as shown....it came out like kamarkattu( very hard). Can you tell me where I would have gone wrong?

      Reply
    14. Kajal Odedra

      February 27, 2017 at 2:53 pm

      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....

      Reply
    15. Kajal Odedra

      February 27, 2017 at 2:54 pm

      Hey Raks anand....

      It is very common sweet in our gujrat & our gujrati Liked very much....., but Thanks for the recipe!

      Reply
    16. Ezhilarasi Anandan

      August 22, 2017 at 7:50 am

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      Reply
    17. Vidya

      December 03, 2019 at 9:30 pm

      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

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        December 04, 2019 at 8:55 pm

        2 tbsp = 1/8 cup. Let me know if you need further conversion.

        Reply
    18. Jaya Gupta

      September 05, 2020 at 5:27 pm

      Mast

      Reply

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