🇮🇳 Indian Cuisine

Mysore Pak

Ghee and Gram Flour Fudge

Prep Time 30 minutes
Servings 8
Difficulty hard
Calories 400 kcal

A rich, melt-in-the-mouth sweet made from gram flour, ghee, and sugar. Created in the royal kitchens of the Mysore Palace in Karnataka.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Make sugar syrup by boiling sugar and water to one-string consistency.
  2. 2 In a separate pan, heat generous ghee and roast gram flour until fragrant.
  3. 3 Slowly pour sugar syrup into the gram flour mixture, stirring vigorously.
  4. 4 Keep adding melted ghee in batches while stirring continuously on medium heat.
  5. 5 When the mixture starts leaving the sides and ghee floats, pour into a greased tray. Cut into pieces when partially set.

Did You Know?

Mysore Pak was invented by Kakasura Madappa, the royal cook of King Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV. When asked what the sweet was called, he spontaneously said Mysore Pak (Mysore dish).