Sunday 22 May 2011

Mysore Pak with a bitter sweet twist.

I was trying out the normal Mysore pak .
By mistake I mixed two ingredients together and I got this new dish which is not that bad after all .

Original Mysore Pak recepie.
1 cup Besan
2 cups Ghee .
1 cup sugar ( you can add or reduce as per your liking) .
A few saffron threads and cardamom pods.

Take a clean thick bottomed pan .
Fry the besan without lumps for a few minutes till it becomes very light brown in colour .
Remove it and keep aside.
Heat the sugar with very little water and keep stirring it till it is one thread consistency .Pour half the ghee and heat it up slightly .
Add the besan slowly and keep stirring so that lumps don't get formed.
Slowly add the remaining ghee and saffron and cardamom powder.
Heat it on a not very high fire ( a medium or low fire will do ) till it leaves the sides and slowly surf gets formed on the top.
Coat a thick bottomed steel plate with ghee or butter .
Slowly pour this thick besan and ghee batter on the plate . Tap it so that it spreads evenly all over the plate .
Keep aside for some time till it is half solidified.
Cut it into desired cake shapes and leave it to solidify fully.
The cakes will then come out easily .

Now to my own twist to this recepie :
Instead of 1 cup besan add 1/2 cup besan plus 1/2 cup fenugreek powder.
I made this by mistake but all my guests ended up liking this dish. Since both besan and methi powder look alike , I had mixed them both by mistake .
But it is definitely more nutritious than a full besan mysore pak .

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