Doce Bhaji

Doce Bhaji

Doce Bhaji or Doce Baji the lapsi from Goa, what every family should cook up for nursing mothers to nourish them and also put a smile on their face.

Apart from that, Doce Baji makes a very delicious tea time sweet. Delicious enough for the entire family to forget who it was originally cooked for. We have been blessed with a baby boy on the 23rd of December, and my parents with their third grand child 🙂

So lets take a look at how to cook up the Doce Bhaji for the entire family!

Doce Bhaji Ingredients:

250 Grams Broken Wheat
1 Coconut for Thick and Thin Coconut Milk
150 Grams or More Sugar
3 Tablespoons Ghee
1/2 Teaspoon Nutmeg
3 – 4 Elaichi
Pinch of Salt

broken wheat or lapsi

The Preparation of Doce Bhaji:

Doce Baji is fairly simple and doesn’t take too much time and energy like some of the traditional Goan sweets. Hoping that you have the broken wheat ready, we didn’t manage to get the wheat ground at the local mill as they weren’t willing to grind only a kilo.

We managed to get a 250 grams packet of broken wheat for Rs 24. The first thing you do is wash it and soak it for around two to three hours so that it cooks faster.
soak broken wheat
Put your scrapped coconut in the blender to make your thick and thin coconut milk.
blended coconut for milk
Just need to grind half the coconut with extra water for the thin milk and the remaining half with less water for the thick milk.

squeezing the coconut pulp
Then use a muslin cloth to filter the coconut pulp and squeeze the juice out.
coconut milk
Here’s the thick and thin coconut milk, you can’t make out the consistency in these pictures but in the coming steps you will be able to see the difference.
thick and thin coconut milk
Put the broken wheat on the fire and add the thin coconut milk. Keep stirring the dish occasionally.
mix thin coconut milk with the doce bhaji
Grind the nutmeg for the powder if you don’t have it ready, we make fresh nutmeg powder. Actually we try to make all the masala powders ourselves.
grinding the nutmeg
Open up the cardamom pods and crush the insides to gut your cardamom powder.
nutmeg elaichi cardamom powder
Once your doce bhaji looks like what it is in the picture you know its nearly done.
doce bhaji nearly cooked
Add part of the thick coconut milk to the dish and get ready to add the other ingredients.
add thick coconut milk
Just add a wee bit of the coconut milk, not necessary but this is how we did it.
add a small amount of coconut milk
Then the sugar, we have mentioned 150 Grams or more, this it totally dependent on your taste though. You can make it less as well if you like or more if you have a sweet tooth 🙂
add sugar to the coconut milk
Add a pinch or two of salt to the doce bhaji this again is as per taste!
add a pinch of salt
Add the ghee to the doce bhaji!
add ghee to the doce bhaji
As the ghee melts add the rest of the thick coconut milk and mix it well.
add the rest of the coconut milk
Add the cardamom and nutmeg powder to the dish and mix it up yet again.
add the cardamom and nutmeg powder
Now bring it to a boil again, shouldn’t take too long, but keep stirring it so it doesn’t get burnt at the bottom.
pour out the doce bhaji into vessels
Pour out the doce bhaji on grease proof paper to cool off and solidify and add some raisins or any other dry fruits you choose to decorate or add more substance to the dish.
decorate the doce bhaji with dry fruits
Once it thickens it can be cut up into nice pieces or eaten whole and enjoyed.

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Roma
Roma
9 years ago

Hi Clyde
Thanks for all the hard work. Can you give us recepie for futi kodi. Thanks again

Clyde
10 years ago

Im glad all of you like it 🙂 This is one of my favorites too ….

Margaret
Margaret
11 years ago

Hi!!

Thanks very much for the recipes for Christmas sweets, it is so nice to see authentic Goan recipes. Thanks to your mother too for all the trouble she has taken preparing them.

Margaret

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Thank you for the recipe I will try cooking this later.

zonia

foodiepune
12 years ago

Hi !! When is your next post ever going to be??
Its been months! im heart broken!!!!!!!

Anonymous
Anonymous
12 years ago

Hi Clyde
This is my husband's favourite sweet…and whenever his mum came to visit us, he asked her to make it for him :=//.
I was so happy when i saw this recipe posted here, but was hesitant to try it coz me & new recipes..it can be scarrryyyy…, but i did try it yesterday and turned out yummmmm….he just loved it……and wants me make it every week…uuuuhhhhhhhhh
i just love the way you present the recipes in here..keep up the good work guys and look forward to some new n simple ;-)recipes.
Cheers!!
Moonira

Maria Fernandes Faife
Maria Fernandes Faife
7 years ago

Hi Clyde,
Thanks for all the lovely recipes. Although I’m a goan I haven’ seen Goa but have tasted most of the goan and portuguese recipes as a child and when my dad was alive.. Now I’m looking for some of those awesome recipes so that my children would have at least a taste of those mouth watering dishes.
Thank you so much for posting them.
All the best,
God bless,
Maria

cecilia
cecilia
7 years ago

Can I use Goa jaggery to make Doce Bhaji? I have had some sweet made with wheat and goan jaggery. Please advise. Thank you.

Regina
Regina
7 years ago

I love this website.
I have a little goan blood in my genes which explains my passion for goan food.
Unfortunately I feel that its a dying culture in the western world which is such a shame. On account of that goan cuisine is very difficult to come by and in my case, nobody in my family cooks goan.
I hope to change this and learn these recipes with the limited spices and ingredients I can get.

My first attempt will be the croquettes – I love them. Wish me luck!

Dr Rukhsana
Dr Rukhsana
7 years ago

Lovely!! I tried the Goan fish curry… Lip smacking.. Felt I was in Goa!!

Jean
Jean
7 years ago

Thanks Clyde for this recipe. Tried it today and it was delicious.

Gayle
Gayle
6 years ago

Hi Clyde,

Quick question is Bulgar and broken wheat the same thing? My grandma always used to make this for me and I never took the recipe from her. Sadly she has alzeimers now and doesn’t remember much. 🙁

Avilet Fernandes
Avilet Fernandes
5 years ago

Awesome recipe…..tried it and it turned out delicious

Judy
Judy
5 years ago

One of my Mum’s favourite recipes, this brings back memories. So simple and delicious. As are all the recipes! I added a little more milk and we ate it like a warm dessert.

Christina DeSouza
Christina DeSouza
3 years ago

Keep going Clyde – lovely recipes – viewed by even my non Goan friends who love Goan food and desserts