Mysore pak is one of the most popular sweetfrom Karnataka. It is made of generous amounts of ghee (clarified butter),sugar and gram flour. I love Krishna Sweet’s Mysore Pak. It has golden color,soft and ghee laden and neatly arranged in blocks in a plastic box. They putliberal amount of ghee to makes it soft.
HereI tried to make like Krishna sweets, I could not completely recreate like that, but almost 90% succeed .The original Krishna sweets recipe is Besan: Sugar :Ghee in the ratio 1:3:3. Because of health reasons in my recipe I used 1:1 1/2:1.
Try my recipe and share your feedback.
Ingredients:
Fresh Besan 1 cup
Sugar 1 1/2 cups
Homemade Ghee 1 cup
Cooking oil ½ cup
Water ¼ cup
Lemon color 1 drop (optional)
Lemon color 1 drop (optional)
Method
- Grease the dish with a little ghee and keepaside.
- Dry fry the Besan till you get the aroma.
- Sieve the flour and mix with oil, withoutany lumps and keep aside for 20 minutes.
- In a pan heat sugar and water. Boil untilyou get a one string consistency. Add lemon color(optional)
- (Drop the syrup on a plate; it should belike a pearl, without moving).
- In mean time, heat the ghee separately and keepaside.
- Once you get the one string consistency,add some ghee and slowly add the gram flour mixture and keep stirringcontinuously without any lumps.
- Reduce the stove heat. Cook on low-medium heat
- Add ghee little by little stirringcontinuously.
- Keep stirring till the Mysore pak willgather like a halwa and ghee starts leaving sides and mixture comes out fromthe vessel.
- Pour it into the greased dish and spread itevenly.
- Let it cool for 15 minutes and then cutinto rectangular or your desired shapes.
- Store them in an airtight container.
TIPS
- Before start to make Mysore pak, all makingmaterials should be ready and keep it one place.
- Always use fresh Besan flour. Otherwisethe Mysore pak will not taste good.
- Stove heat should be medium.
- The consistency of the sugar syrup is veryimportant so wait till you reach one string consistency.
- Use pure ghee, preferably home made ghee,to make soft and delicious Mysore pak.
- Take out the spatula from the sugar syrup.Touch the sugar syrup with your index or middle finger.
- Press the finger you touched the syrup with the thumb and then move apart thefingers. The syrup must stretch like a string.
- Ifthe syrup does not stretch, heat the mixture for some more time and test again.
