Recipe- North Indian Style Malpua

Malpua is a popular & traditional north sweet made for festivals like Holi, Diwali. These are basically deep fried flour pancakes dipped in sticky sugar syrup. It is a very delicious treat with crispy lacy edges & soft fluffy inside. Most often this dessert is served with some thickened sweet milk and known as malpua rabdi.

Ingredients

For Malpua Batter

1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup milk powder/khoya
1 3/4 cup milk
1/8 teaspoon saffron
1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
1/4 cup water
1/8 teaspoon salt
Ghee or oil for frying

For sugar syrup:

1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
Pinch of saffron
1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder

For serving:

Chopped nuts
Rabdi optional

Method

Making the batter

- Take all purpose flour, milk powder, fennel seeds, saffron, cardamom powder in a mixing bowl, Add a pinch of salt and mix well.

- Add milk mix well. whisk very well to form a free flowing batter without any lumps. The batter should be like appam batter (consistency)

- Let the batter sit for 20-30 minutes.

Making sugar syrup

- Bring 1/2 cup water to a boil, add 3/4 cup sugar and dissolve. Add a pinch of saffron and some cardamom powder. Mix well and simmer for 10 minutes, Remove from flame and set aside.

Frying malpua

- Mix the prepared batter once, and take a ladle full of batter and pour in the hot oil. Cook from both sides until golden brown and edges turn crisp.

- Remove from oil and immediately soak in the sugar syrup. Soak for few seconds and remove. repeat the same with the remaining batter.

- Serve with nuts, hot or warm with rabdi.