The name 'doce bhaji' literally means a combination of something
sweet and something savoury. Put simply, it is a broken wheat pudding
made using ingredients readily available in almost any Goan kitchen -
wheat, coconut milk, sugar, clarified butter (ghee) and flavourings.
This traditional tea time sweet dish is excellent for lactating
mothers and children because of its strengthening properties. The
uninitiated could easily mistake a plate of doce bhaji for a halwa or
a sheera, but take a bite of it and the play of textures on your
palette will definitely make you want to reach out for one more
piece.
Ingredients
1
cup Broken Wheat
2
cups thick Coconut milk
1-1
1/2 cups thin coconut milk
2-3
tbsps Ghee
3/4 dark coconut jaggery
1/4 cup sugar
1
tsp Cardamom powder
¼
cup chopped Cashewnuts/Almonds
¼
cup Raisins
Salt
to taste
Method
Wash
and soak the broken wheat in in water for 3-4 hours to reduce
cooking time.Drain
the broken wheat and add it to a heavy bottom utensil along with the
thin coconut milk and salt cook on a medium flame, stirring
constantly. Once the wheat is almost cooked, add the thick coconut
milk,jaggery, sugar and continue cooking. Finally add the cardamom powder,
nuts, raisins and ghee. Keep stirring till it absorbs all the
moisture. Remove it from the flame and transfer it to individual
serving dishes or a greased platter of your choice. When cooled and
set you can cut it into squares to serve if you prefer. Make sure you
refrigerate leftovers (if you have any, I didnt) as docebhaji spoils
easily because of the coconut in the recipe.
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