Easiest Way to Prepare Appetizing Lobongo Lotika

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Lobongo Lotika. Lobongo lotika, like mishti shingara and goja, is a flaky, deep-fried, sugar-syrup-coated pastry. Like the mishti singara, it is also filled with kheer. But what gives lobongo lotika its whimsically poetic name is the fact that the kheerenvelopes, once folded, are sealed with a single clove (lobongo).

The dough is then folded to enclose the filling completely and cloves are pressed over it to ensure that the fold doesn't open up while preparing.

Then it's cooked in hot ghee until golden brown and crispy. "Lobongo lotika" it's fanciful name is enough to prove its richness and taste.

Clove is known as lobongo; this can be one of the reason for it's whimsically different name.

You can have Lobongo Lotika using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Lobongo Lotika

1. Prepare 1 cup of maida.

2. Prepare 2 tbsp of wheat flour.

3. It’s 1/2 tsp of baking powder.

4. You need 11/2 cup of refined oil.

5. Prepare 3 tbsp of ghee.

6. It’s 3/4 cup of sugar.

7. Prepare 1 cup of water.

8. Prepare To taste of salt.

9. You need 4 tbsp of coarsely ground coconut.

10. It’s 2 tbsp of semolina.

11. It’s 2 tbsp of crushed mawa.

12. It’s 10-12 of laung (cloves).

13. Prepare 1 tbsp of raisins.

14. Prepare 3 of crushed green cardamoms without skin.

So, without any further delay, let's make this amazing and mouthwatering snack.

All you need six to seven ingredients to prepare this.

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So here you have some delicious Lobongo Lotika.

Lobongo Lotika instructions

1. Take maida and wheat flour in a bowl.Sprinkle pinch of salt and 1/2 tsp baking powder.Mix well, preferably seive both the flours, salt and baking powder.Add 2 tbsp ghee and 1 tbsp oil.Add water and knead into a stiff dough.Set aside covered for half hour..

2. Meanwhile make a filling of ground coconut,semolina and mawa.Heat 1 tbsp ghee and toss the semolina lightly.Add 2 tbsp sugar,the ground coconut and crumbled mawa.Toss all till a lump is formed.Sprinkle crushed cardamom powder,raisins and toss again..

3. Make lemon size 8 balls out of the dough and roll into a round like puri.Place 1 tsp filling in the centre.Smear water all round the edges and fold one on top of other.Fold like an envelope from the back and secure the edges with a laung (clove).

4. Make a sugar syrup with half cup sugar and water.Boil till sticky and set aside.Meanwhile heat oil in a pan or wok and fry the lobongo lotika under low flame till golden brown.Dip each in sugar syrup (chasni)and spread to cool.Serve hot or cold.This sweet stays good for long and as we have added mawa should be refrigerated..

It is also very popular in the North & North-East.

Lobongo Lotika is a traditional Bengali Sweet.

Lobongo is Clove in English and Long in Hindi , this sweet named as clove is used to seal the envelop wrap around the filling.

This dish made in two part.

First part is make the mouth washing coconut stuffing and second part is make the body or wrapper of stuffing.