Malpua Recipe - Malpua is a very exotic dessert served with rabri.It is basically a pancake dipped in sugar syrup and served with a warm rabri topped with pistachios.Rabri is nothing but thickened sweet saffron milk with chopped nuts.
Every year for Gokulashtami, I badly wanted to try this but somehow it got missed and yayyy this year dona done :)) This is the first time I am trying and tasting malpua ,what should I say...it was like heaven in your mouth, it was so yummmm.A very rich dessert that will make your meal special if this is served for dessert.
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Malpua Recipe
Preparation Time:15 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Makes:10 small malpuas
Recipe Category: Main | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Recipe Category: Main | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
For Malpua base:
Plain Flour(Maida) - 1/2 cupKhoya - 1/4 cup
Fennel Seeds powder - 1/4 tsp
Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt - pinch
Oil / Ghee - 2 tbsp
For Rabri:
Milk - 2 cupsCardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
Saffron - 5 strands
Pistachios - 2 tbsp chopped
For the sugar syrup:
Sugar - 1/4 cupWater - 1/8 cup
Method:
- For the Rabri : Boil milk,scrap the sides and keep mixing the malai.Put the flame to low, then add sugar.
- Let it boil until it reduces to almost half.Keep scrapping the sides and mixing.Mix at the bottom to avoid burning,You can see the color change from white to cream.
- Now add saffron strands and cook for few more mins until its thick and creamy.The rabri will thicken when it cools down, so switch off accordingly.Add pistachios(reserve some for garnish)
- See how thick it is after cooling down.Chill the rabri or you can serve it warm too.
- For the sugar syrup: Take sugar in a pan, add water to it, heat it up.
- Cook until it forms a sticky syrup more like honey consistency.To avoid crystallization, keep the syrup bowl inside a bigger bowl containing warm water,the base of the bowlshould touch the warm water,Set aside.Now take flour in a mixing bowl.
- Now add khoya,grind fennel seeds using a mortar and pestle.
- Now add fennel seeds mixture and caradmom powder to the mixing bowl.
- Add required salt, crumble khoya mix well with your hands for even mixing.Add water little by little.
- Whisk it well and keep adding little by little to form a thickish batter more lile idli batter consistency.It should be in dropping consistency but thick as shown.
- Take a deep curved laddle full of batter and add it to a pan containing oil.Shallow fry it.Splash oilover the malpuas with the spatula for even cooking.
- Flip over and cook until golden brown.Press it for even cooking.
- Now add the malpuas to the sugar syrup.Flip over and transfer to a plate.
Usually Malpua is served warm but I loved it with chilled rabri either ways it tastes delicious :) After all its all the rich ingredients that goes into the making which makes this dessert very exotic.
My Notes:
- You can substitute plain flour with wheat flour too.
- You can shallow fry in ghee too.
- Cook the malpuas in low medium flame until crisp at the edges.
- If the batter consistency is too thin then it will spread out while poring itself,so add little more flour whisk it and then try again.
- I used my flat cast iron skillet for frying.You can use any flat pan.
- I added around 2 tbsp oil but still the malpuas came out nice crisp.Keep frying patiently in low flame to get crisp malpuas.
