Chickpea Flour Dessert (mysore Pak)
Indian dish with gram flour, ghee, sugar.
- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- intermediate
- India
Ingredients
- 1 cup gram flour
- 2–3 cups ghee
- 2 ½ cups sugar
- ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
- to taste water
Steps
- Roast the gram flour in a small amount of ghee.
- Combine the sugar, cardamom, and a splash of water in a saucepan.
- Boil it until the syrup reaches the single thread stage.
- If more than one thread can be drawn, then more water needs to be added.
- Mix half the roasted gram flour into the hot sugar syrup, keeping the heat on.
- Gradually stir half the ghee into the gram flour mixture.
- Keep stirring the mixture until the ghee is absorbed.
- Repeat with the remaining gram flour and ghee.
- More ghee can be added just until the mixture stops taking in more ghee.
- After the mixture is boiled, it turns into crispy, bubble form.
- Pour it in a pan.
- Let cool.
- Cut it into pieces of desired shapes.
Adapted from “Chickpea Flour Dessert (Mysore Pak)”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.