Mysore Paak

by Shaheen Ali

The festive season is on and Lord Ganesha has arrived. I have been seeing my friends making lots of sweets and desserts as offering to the God. Though Modak has a huge significance with the festival but apart from that there are various home made delicious sweets that can be offered to the Lord and make him happy. One of them is fresh home made aromatic Mysore Paak …Mysore pak is a rich sweet dish prepared in butter, from Southern India, usually served as dessert. It originated in Mysore. It is made of generous amounts of ghee, sugar, gram flour, and often cardamom. [source-wikipedia]


Mysore pak was first prepared in the kitchens of the Mysore Palace by a palace cook named Kakaasura Madappa out of the above ingredients.The cook at the mysore Palace kitchen simply made a concoction of gram flour, ghee and sugar. When asked its name, Madappa obviously didn’t have its name in mind, so he simply called it the ‘Mysore pak’. Pak (or paka, more precisely), in Sanskrit and other Indian vernaculars, means sweet. It is traditionally served in weddings and other festivals of southern India. It is very popular in baby showers too. [source-wikipedia]

The aroma of desi ghee when combined with gram flour is simply amazing. Well i got this recipe from one of my old neighbor lady who used to make this delicacy in every special occasion of her house. The Golden beauty that simply melts in mouth leaves stains of Ghee all over your hands is something i could die for. After making it today, i am totally in love with this Indian sweet.

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MYSORE PAK
Course dessert
Cuisine karnataka
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Servings
piece
Ingredients
  • 2 cups Gram flour Besan /
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1/2 cup Water
  • 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder
  • 1 cup butter ghee Clarified / Desi
  • 1 cup Refined oil
Course dessert
Cuisine karnataka
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Servings
piece
Ingredients
  • 2 cups Gram flour Besan /
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1/2 cup Water
  • 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder
  • 1 cup butter ghee Clarified / Desi
  • 1 cup Refined oil
Instructions
  1. Sift besan and keep aside in a dry bowl. Grease a tray or a baking pan and keep ready.
  2. In a non stick wok/ broad pan heat water and sugar and boil it to make a one string syrup.
  3. Meanwhile add 3/4 cup of oil with besan and make a batter
  4. In a separate pan heat ghee and left over oil together.
  5. When the sugar syrup is ready start adding the besan batter and keep stirring continuously.
  6. Keep the gas flame in medium always. Keep adding the rest of the batter by stirring continuously.
  7. While stirring the batter start add the hot ghee and cardamom powder from top. Keep stirring to avoid forming lumps.
  8. As soon as the batter starts to thicken and start shaping into a lump by leaving from the sides, pour the thick batter on the greased tray and tap so that the batter spreads evenly.
  9. Let it cool and set in a cool dry place. Preferable under the fan.
  10. Once the Mysore paak is set properly, invert the tray and de mold the spread.
  11. Cut into long rectangular pieces and store in an air tight box.
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1 comment

Rahul Chawdhary February 13, 2019 - 9:57 am

Nice recipe.It seem really sweet.Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe.I think it is easy to make in the home.So i try to make this in my home.Cooking is my favorite field and i try new experiments in it.Expecting more wonderful recipes like this.Each Indian citizen must have a pancard.So there are different ways to apply for a card refer more ( https://panseva.com ) one of the easy way to panseva is through online,which is one of the easiest method.Looking for a new pan card then apply here in a easiest step.

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