Malpua

How many of you have eaten this sweet snack during your childhood? Generally made at my place during Holi or Diwali, this finds a special place in my heart always. My Nani (grandmother) introduced me to this when I was a kid. My daughter likes this too. I made this recently for her and she liked it. This snack is sweet and she has a sweet tooth. You want her to like any food, the trick is to add sugar 😜.

Ingredients:

- 1 cup all purpose flour

- 2 tablespoon khoya

- 1 teaspoon powdered green cardamom

- 2 tablespoon chopped pistachios

- saffron as required (Optional)

- 1 tablespoon semolina

- Sugar (1 tbsp)

- water as required

- 1 1/2 cup refined oil

- 10 gm readymade rabri (Optional)

- 1 1/2 cup sugar syrup (Optional)

Method:

- Take a bowl and mix together khoya, all purpose flour, sugar and sooji or semolina. 

- Next, add cardamom powder and mix well once again. Gradually add water to prepare the Malpua batter. Ensure that the mixture has a pourable consistency and is not too thick. 

- Once the batter is ready, keep it aside for few minutes. 

- Take a small bowl and soak saffron in water to make saffron water.

- Now, heat oil in a pan over a low flame. 

- When the oil is hot enough, pour a ladleful of the mixture and spread evenly. Keep the flame low and cook until the malpua is golden from both sides.

- Remove the cooked malpua and drain the excess oil. 

- Drop the malpua in sugar syrup and allow it to soak for 10 minutes. 

- Repeat the same with the remaining batter. Drain the malpuas from the syrup, garnish with pistachios, saffron water and rabri. Serve immediately.