Gur papdi is a sweet dish prepared using wheat flour, jaggery and ghee with cardamom flavour. This sweet is usually made in winter.
I was not aware of this sweet until Ume Rubab Mirza, a reader friend from Karachi sent me this recipe. Thank you 🙏 I 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. I 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. 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. I thought it may be difficult for cutting, so I garnished the nuts. I 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.
How to make gur papdi video:
Gur papdi recipe
Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Sweet
Prep Time: 5 mins | Cook time: 10 mins | Makes:12 squares
Prep Time: 5 mins | Cook time: 10 mins | Makes:12 squares
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Ingredients
Wheat flour – 1/2 cup
Jaggery (gur) – 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp
Ghee – 2 & 1/2 tbsp *
Cardamom – 1, powdered
Almonds – 10, silvered
Jaggery (gur) – 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp
Ghee – 2 & 1/2 tbsp *
Cardamom – 1, powdered
Almonds – 10, silvered
Update: *Use more ghee for softer texture (can increase up to 1 tbsp more)
How to prepare gur papdi step by step method:
- Heat a pan with ghee and roast 1/2 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.
Tips
- 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 5 tbsp, 1 tbsp, jaggery – 3/4 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.
Enjoy the sweet, you can make it when ever there’s a sweet craving, that easy! 
Supriya Sivanandhan
January 25, 2017 at 11:56 amAbsolutely delicious !! May i know the shelf life for this ?
RajeeSam
January 25, 2017 at 12:10 pmYummy sweet that too with wheat flour very easy and nice recipe raji thanks
Raks anand
January 25, 2017 at 1:27 pmSince this has no milk or coconut, shelf live should be at least a week.
Raks anand
January 25, 2017 at 1:28 pmThank you 🙂 Do try it.
Archana Brian
January 25, 2017 at 2:32 pmThanks 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
January 25, 2017 at 2:44 pmThe 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
January 26, 2017 at 12:17 amLet me know how it turned out to be 🙂
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Raks anand
January 26, 2017 at 12:17 amThank you 🙂
Subashini N
January 26, 2017 at 9:44 amAs usual looks yum and beautiful clicks Raji. Looks very easy to make too. Will try sometime soon.
Subashini N
January 26, 2017 at 9:45 amAlso I am loving the new look of your site. Great work.
Vaishnavi S Rao
January 26, 2017 at 12:53 pmI 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
February 7, 2017 at 1:24 pmI also add dry ginger powder 1 tbsp when roasting wheat flour as it is good in winter.
Unknown
February 7, 2017 at 1:24 pmHi….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
February 27, 2017 at 2:53 pmHey 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
February 27, 2017 at 2:54 pmHey Raks anand….
It is very common sweet in our gujrat & our gujrati Liked very much….., but Thanks for the recipe!
Ezhilarasi Anandan
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