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 Mysore Pak is a delicious Indian sweet. This rich sweet comes from Southern India and is usually served as dessert. Very few ingredients are required to prepare this sweet like ghee, sugar, gram flour, and often cardamom. It is served during various Indian occasions like weddings, baby showers etc.
History of Mysore Pak
The sweet originated in Mysore. It was first made in the kitchens of the Mysore Palace by a palace cook named Kakaasura Madappa. The cook simply made a concoction of gram flour, ghee and sugar. When Madappa was questioned by the palace people about the recipe's name, obviously he had no name in mind, so he simply called it the Mysore pak.
Ingredients of Mysore Pak
1 cup channa besan (gram flour)
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 cups ghee or butter
Method of Preparing Mysore Pak
Heat the ghee to a thin liquid and pour it into a measuring cup.
Take the sugar and 1/2 cup water in a kadai, place it on medium heat.
Just when the sugar dissolves, add the besan. Keep stirring through the whole procedure.
Add little by little ghee while stirring.
When the mixture starts separating out from the ghee, pour it into a thali with a little bit of ghee spread on it.
Cut it to small squares while hot.
Another method of preparing Mysore Pak with slight change in the ingredients:
Ingredients of Mysore Pak
1.5 cup gram flour
1.5 cup sugar
1 cup desi ghee
1 cup refined oil
1 tsp cardamom powder
Method of Preparing Mysore Pak
Firstly, prepare the sugar syrup. For this add sugar in any utensil with heavy base and add half cup of water. Keep cooking till sugar melts completely.
Then, take out gram flour in any utensil, add half the quantity of oil into it and make a batter.
Add ghee in a pan and place it on flame for heating. After ghee melts add rest of the oil as well. Check the syrup if it is ready.
Add gram flour batter in the syrup and stir constantly.
With the help of spoon add little amount of hot ghee in pan with gram flour batter. Roast and stir constantly. Keep the flame low-medium only. Keep adding the ghee in batter with help of spoon. Gram flour will start appearing puffy and colour will change too. When batter gets puffs, that means mysore pak is ready.
Pour it into a thali and cut into shapes as desired.
The good thing about this delicious sweet is that it can be stored in an airtight container and can be enjoyed for a month. Mysore Pak is ideal to sweeten the tooth of guests when invited at home.
(Last Updated on : 09-12-2014)
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