Let's give a healthy nudge to our traditional desserts this festive season #healthytwist1
It's festive season and we need more reasons to celebrate our days now more than ever before perhaps. The pandemic has adversely affected more souls than the world knows. Any day can be a reason to bring smile in unique ways.
So, here's an attempt to make those moments a little sweeter the healthy way as this blog has been trying to.
As life turned virtual and the most of the work was shifted to laptop and mobile, my eyes did get affected immensely. That is one of reasons apart from my hectic job schedule, why the blog has been dormant for quite some months now . This was a test recipe and when it turned out well, I thought I should post it here. Sorry about not including the pictorial
Mysore pak is a South Indian sweet from Mysuru, one of the major cities in the Indian state of Karnataka. Traditionally made of generous amounts of ghee, sugar, and gram flour, the texture of this sweet is similar to a buttery and dense cookie. There are variants of it. Try this melt-in-the mouth healthily yummilicious sweet and fall in love with it.
This is made with minimal ingredients. You may double the ingredients if you wish to increase the quantity. I always try to use minimal ingredients at all my trial attempts lest I waste some, if it turns out a failure . The best thing about trying this out apart from the joy of getting it perfect was the fact that it hardly took 30 minutes of my time. 💃
Let's get started, shall we?
Ingredients:
gram flour/besan : ½ cup
oil :½ cup
clarified butter/ghee :½ cup
brown sugar :1cup
water :¼ cup
Cooking Time : 10 minutes
Preparation Time : 5 minutes
Course : dessert
Makes : 12 pieces
Recipe :
Heat up the oil in a pan.
Take a spoonful of oil as it gets heated and add it to the flour. Let the oil stay getting warm.
Rub the flour between your palms and crumb mix the flour.Sieve and keep aside.
Make a single string syrup of the sugar and water in a thick bottomed pan.
When the syrup is almost done, add ghee to the pan in which the oil is getting heated bringing it down to low flame.
When the syrup reaches a single string consistency, add the sifted gram flour to it and mix well.
Once the flour combines well with the syrup, add the hot ghee-oil mix into the flour, a spoon at a time mixing continuously . ( Do this step carefully as the oil will be quite hot and you would be working the flour with one hand and adding the oil simultaneously.)
In some time, the oil will start leaving the pan.
Transfer the mix immediately into a greased pan and level it. After 5 mins cut into squares. Leave it aside to set.
Once set demould and serve. You may serve it cold or at room temperature.
I have used brown sugar here to give it a healthy twist. You may use the regular white sugar if you prefer. There is no compromising with the taste. All you will have to compromise is the colour.
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