After Bijoya Dashami, the round of sweet exchange rituals has ended. The next big holiday is Diwali now. Many people visit homes during that time. Additionally, sweets must be delivered to friends' and family's homes. You always purchase candies from stores. Make something new at home this time. Laddu, gulab jamun, or the well-known rasgulla or sandesh won't work either. Make Mysore pak instead. Here's the recipe.
What will you need?
Gram flour: 3 cups
Sugar: 1 cup
Ghee: 1 cup
Water: 1 cup
Condensed milk: 1 cup
How to make it?
First, sift the gram flour well through a sieve. If there are lumps, break them with your hands.
Now, dry roast the gram flour in a dry pan for about a minute. But be careful that the gram flour doesn't burn.
Gradually mix ghee into the gram flour. But don't let lumps form. Once the ghee is mixed, you need to mix the condensed milk with the gram flour.
Now, make syrup with water and sugar in another kadai. The syrup for Mysore pak doesn't need to be very thick.
Reduce the heat completely and gradually mix it with the gram flour in the kadai. Keep stirring the mixture continuously with a ladle.
When the gram flour and syrup mix well while stirring, turn off the heat. The gram flour mixture should neither be too thin nor too thick.
Now pour the mixture into a greased square mould. Leave it like that for about four hours. It would be even better if you could leave it overnight.
Then take it out of the mould and cut it lengthwise – the job is done. Mysore Pak is ready.
