Malpua

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Ingredients:

For halwa :

2 tbsp ghee

11/2 cup lauki

1 cup milk

1/4 cup sugar

1 pinch Cardamom powder

1 pinch saffron

1 pinch Dried rose petal

For malpuabatter :

1/2 cup mawa

1 pinch elaichi powder

1 cup milk

1/2 cup maida

 

For sugar syrup:

 

Sugar – ¼ cup

Saffron – one pinch

 

For frying malpua :

 

Ghee for deep frying

Sugar syrup

Garnish

Rabri

Chopped pistachio

 

Method:

For halwa:

In a pan heat ghee, put lauki and cook the laukiand  then add milk to it, then continue cooking it till the milk evaporates.

Add sugar, a pinch of cardamom powder, and stir it again and cook at low flame.

Add saffron, and finish by adding dry rose petals.

For malpua batter:

In a bowl put mawa and mash it completely, add cardamom powder, and mash it nicely.

Pour milk in creamed mawa and add maida to make a pouring consistency batter.

For sugar syrup:

Make a sugar syrup with sugar, water and saffron

For frying malpua:

In a medium hot ghee deep fry the batter till golden brown

Soak the crispy malpua in sugar syrup

Garnish :

On a serving plate, make a circle of rabri.

Place malpua, add a spoon of lauki halwa, repeat the process to make a stack

Garnish it with pistachios.

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