Holi special- shahi kesari malpua

Hello,
Everyone.
Happy holi to to all of you. Holi is festival of colours and joy.Colours are synonymous with Indian festival,beliefs, custom and way of life.
Colours affects our health mental or physical too..perception of colour shows our mood and state of mind.
Holi is around the corner..
In holi..colours are painted in the air carry the message of joy,happiness and affection.
Each colour symbolised  our way of living and mood.
You will find that in these  pics I use flowers  and abir in this ...cause  nature's colours derived from flowers or natural things.
Do enjoy your holiday with some  colours and lots of sweets and namkins.
Thus, colours play very important role in life.
So, we are here with some lipsmacking and finger liking  dishes on the eve of holi.
First,we will make awesome shahi keasri malpuas.
Malpuas is a pancake served as a dessert popular in India..especially served  in holi.

Let's quickly go through the right recipe here.

Shahi kesari Malpua
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 25
Makes 15 malpua


Ingredients
1cup khoya (mava)
1 cup grated cottage cheese (paneer)
2 cup plain refine flour (maida)
½ cup condensed milk
¼ cup milk/ water( adjust water/ milk accordingly)
Ghee for deep frying
1 tbsp cardamom powder
For garnish---

½ cup rabri
2 tbsp blanched and finely chopped almonds (badam)
2tbsp blanched and finely chopped pistas(pistacho)
2 tbsp finely chopped cashew nuts
2 pinch of saffron strands (kesar) dissolved in 2 tbsp lukewarm water.

For thin sugar syrup

2 cup sugar( 300 gram)
1tsp of Saffron stands for sugar syrup
1 cup water


Method for sugar syrup

*Heat the non stick heavy bottom broad pan, add sugar, and saffron water mixture, mix well and cook on medium flame for 5 to 7 minutes or till the sugar syrup become one thread consistency. (1 string thin sugar syrup). Keep aside.

Method for Malpua

*Combine the (refineflour), mawa (khoya), grated paneer in a bowl, mix well. Add ¼ cup of milk / water, condensed milk, mix well till no lump remain.
The batter should be neither thick nor thin.
Keep aside for10 minutes.

*Warm the sugar syrup on simmer.

*Heat ghee in a small heavy bottom kadhai (prefer non stick). Pour a little batter (small ladleful of mava-paneer mixture) on ghee and deep fry till the malpua are golden brown in colour from both sides.

*Take out the malpua from the kadhai.

*Dip the malpua in the warm sugar syrup.

*Repeat with the remaining batter to make 14 more malpuas.

*Garnished with little amount of rabri, saffron (dissolved in warm water) chopped cashewnuts and almond, Pista.
Serve immediately.

I am sure you will be happy to make these awesome lipsmacking  divine taste of these malpuas in this holi.
Once again happy holidays to all of you.
Enjoy each and every moment of this special colourful festival with lots of awesome recipes..
 Do enjoy this festival with your family and friends.

My mom tip..
*Always check the batter thickness before making malpuas..this should be pouring consistency..
Not very thin nor very thick..
Otherwise the puas will either thick or stuck or splatter in  the oil ..
Check the consistency before making malpuas if needed add some amount of maida( refine flour)..
If it gets thick add some amount of milk  or water.
*The sugar syrup should be lukewarm when you put the puas in it.
Check sugar syrup consistency before dipping the puas in it..it should be one string consistency. ( If you do not know how to check the consistency read my older post of recipe of jalebi..
You will find out there.. how to check the sugar syrup.

Thanks for  reading my blog..

We will come back to u very soon with some more delicious recipes.

We are signing off.
Asha
Archana
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