Hearty New Year Wishes to all my readers. Sorry for not posting for quite some time as
I was settling down slowly after the Chennai floods. Lot of
personal priorities to be taken care of and I took some time to clear one by
one.
Last year was a remarkable year for me both in person and
professional front. Lot of wishes and
dreams have come true. The start of the
new year is also divine. I went to the
famous Tirumala and had a very good darshan on two consecutive days. Looking forward this year with lot of hopes..
I thought to start the new year with a sweet. Here's the recipe for Mysore Pak. Very easy and authentic recipe which can be
made in just half an hour. The quantity can
yield around 30 to 35 medium sized mysore paks.
Ingredients:
Bengal gram flour - 1 cup
Sugar - 2 cups
Melted Ghee - 1.5 cups
Sugar for sprinkling - 1 tsp
Oil - 2 tsp
Preparation:
1. Sieve the bengal
gram flour to get rid of lumps. This is
a must to be done step to get a perfect mysore paks. Grease a plate with ghee as a ready step. Due to lighting, the flour looks white in color instead of pale yellow.
2. In a heavy bottom pan, add a tsp of ghee and fry the flour until the raw smell of flour vanishes. This would hardly take 3-5 minutes.
3. In a heavy bottom
pan, add sugar with water enough to immerse it (approximately half cup of
water).
4. Boil until 1 string consistency. If you take the ladle, a string will form as
shown in picture.
5. Add the flour slowly stirring continuously. The flame should be in low to medium side
during this step. Don't worry if lumps
are seen, slowly it will disappear if you keep stirring continuously.
6. Add ghee in between slowly and keep stirring until the
ghee mixes and add the next batch of ghee slowly.
7. At one stage, the color changes and add 2 tsp of
oil. Adding oil would bring tiny hollows
to the mysore pak as like in shops which would taste crispy and stiff while
eating.
7. At one stage, the
whole mixture starts frothy as shown in the picture. Also there will be a fragrance filled of
cooked besan in ghee.
8. When the mixture comes as ball without sticking to the base, pour it to the greased plate. Do not flatten it, it will spread it by itself.
9. Sprinkle a tsp of sugar over the mixture. This is an optional step but would given an
excellent touch to the sweet. Slice according
to your desire, either square, rectangle or diamond. Being a woman, I fond of diamonds, so cut in
diamond shaped :-) .
11. Soft melting
mysore paks are ready to be served to your loved ones.
Note: Do not reduce
the sugar and ghee level as it would turn out giving hard mysore paks. The quantity given here has been tried multiple
times and has always been perfect.
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