🇮🇳 Indian Cuisine

Malpua

Fried Sweet Pancake

Prep Time 40 minutes
Servings 4
Difficulty medium
Calories 320 kcal

Sweet, syrup-soaked pancakes made from flour, milk, and cardamom. A traditional dessert from Rajasthan and Bihar, often served during Holi and other festivals.

Ingredients

  • refined flour (1 cup)
  • semolina (2 tbsp)
  • milk
  • sugar
  • fennel seeds
  • green cardamom
  • saffron
  • ghee for frying
  • rabri for serving

Instructions

  1. 1 Mix flour, semolina, milk, fennel seeds, and cardamom into a smooth thick batter. Rest for 30 minutes.
  2. 2 Prepare sugar syrup with cardamom and saffron.
  3. 3 Heat ghee in a flat pan. Pour a small ladleful of batter and spread into a small disc.
  4. 4 Fry until golden brown on both sides.
  5. 5 Dip in sugar syrup and serve warm topped with rabri.

Did You Know?

Malpua is offered as bhog (sacred food) at the Jagannath Temple in Puri and is one of the 56 dishes in the chhappan bhog offering.

From The Culinary Codex — http://theculinarycodex.com/dish/indian/malpua/