Ramzan recipe: How to make malpuas

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Malpuas are pancake like dish which are served as dessert or snacks. It is a famous dish during the holy month of Ramadan and Muslim families across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh prepare malpuas for iftar (meal to break the fast).

Ingredients

• 150 grams of maida (all purpose flour)
• 40 grams rawa (semolina)
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 4 eggs
• 1/4 cup of milk
• 100 grams of khoya or mawa
• 100 grams of sugar
• 1/2 tsp elaichi powder (cardamom)
• 5-6 almonds powdered
• Ghee for frying

Method

• Mix rawa, maida and baking powder in a bowl.
• Add enough water to make it into a paste.
• Cover it and keep it for 6 to 8 hours.
• After 8 hours, add lightly beaten eggs, sugar, elaichi powder, crumbled khoya, almonds and enough milk to make fairly thick batter.
• Heat enough ghee in a frying pan for the purpose of deep frying.
• Pour one large spoon of batter on it. Fry it until the batter turns golden brown on one side. Then turn it on the other side. Let the other side also turn golden brown.
• The first malpua is ready.
• Remove it from the pan and do the same for the remaining of the batter.
• Serving Malpuas can be best served with malai or rabdi.
• Note Malpuas have to be served hot or warm. If you chill them then it becomes chewy.

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