Malpua: Easy Recipe
Malpua is a traditional sugar syrup coated North Indian sweet dish that is often made on special occasions and during festivals like Holi and Diwali.
Ingredients
- 1 cup plain warm milk
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 cup refined wheat flour
- banana mashed
- cardamom
- nuts Cashew, Raisins, Almonds, Pistachio
- ½ tsp fennel seeds
- 2 tbsp semolina/rava
- 3 tbsp ghee
- saffron strands
Instructions
Batter:
- Add sugar to warm milk and stir for 1-2 minutes. Keep the milk aside for 4-5 minutes and then check if sugar is completely dissolved.
- Add in refined wheat flour to the milk and mix well, add more milk as needed.
- Add semolina/rava, cardamom powder, fennel seeds and pinch of crushed nuts to the mixture. Mix well and let the batter rest for 10-15 minutes.
- Now add mashed banana to it and mix well. Your batter is now ready.
Sugar Syrup:
- Add sugar to the pot/pan. Add in water and then heat it up.
- Simmer the syrup on low flame until it turns sticky and you get honey like consistency.
- Now, heat up water in comparatively bigger bowl, and then place the bowl containing sugar syrup on top of bigger bowl making sure that the base touches the warm water. You need to do this to prevent the syrup from crystallization.
Malpua:
- Add 2-3 tbsp ghee as needed to a pan and heat it up on low flame.
- Once ghee turns hot, pour half/one ladle of batter without spreading it manually. It should spread by its own and start sizzling. Once the edges start turning golden, flip over using a spatula and fry till it's done. Repeat this process in batches till all the malpuas are fried.
- Dip them in warm syrup. Remember to gently coat them with sugar syrup using a spoon.
- Remove and place them in a serving plate. Pour some Rabri on top and then garnish them with chopped pistachios and almonds.