Malpua (Super-sweet Syrup-soaked Golden Pancake, Street Style)
Golden pancakes swimming in a syrup pool! Devil's Fried Candy on a Festive Night
Description
India's oldest traditional sweet shallow-frying dough mixed with wheat flour/fennel in a massive Ghee pool, further soaking in super-sweet syrup scented with cardamom/saffron.
Restaurants serving Malpua (Super-sweet Syrup-soaked Golden Pancake, Street Style)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Wheat flour
- Semolina
- Milk powder
- Milk
- Fennel
- Ghee
- Sugar
- Cardamom
- Saffron
Instructions
- [For
- Servings/
- Pieces] 50g wheat flour,
- tbsp semolina,
- tbsp milk powder (or Khoya),
- tsp fennel seeds, milk to taste, 100g Ghee (for frying), 100g sugar, 100ml water, cardamom/saffron to taste, pistachios.
- Put equal parts sugar/water in a pot, add saffron/cardamom powder boiling down gooey, prepping piping hot 'special syrup'.
- Mix wheat flour, semolina (for crispiness), milk powder (for rich depth, originally Khoya from boiled milk), refreshing fennel seeds, gradually adding milk making smooth pancake-like batter.
- Heat massive Ghee (clarified butter) in a shallow wide stall iron pot (Kadai).
- Scoop batter with ladle, pour 'sizzle' drawing a circle in the hot Ghee pool center. Flip when batter edges turn crispy lace-like and center puffs golden.
- Dive the fresh-fried oil-dripping hot pancake (Malpua) directly into the adjacent kept-warm super-sweet syrup pot. Let it absorb syrup to the core for mins, plate, scatter crushed pistachios to finish. Crispy outside, overflowing juicily with sweet juice inside—a festival dessert breaking calorie limits.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Fennel、Cardamom、Saffron
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Pancake mix (mix fennel, bake with massive butter, soak in syrup)
Pairing
Hot milk、As closure after spicy meals
Trivia
[Hardcore] One of India's oldest sweets supposedly described in the Rigveda (ancient scripture). Mass-fried at stalls especially in winter or festivals like Holi/Diwali. The 'fennel (refreshing anise-like spice)' wafting gently amidst intense sweetness sublimates this confection from mere pancakes to an exotic magic dessert.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Splash rich cold milk sauce (Rabri) heavily over the piping hot Malpua heavy to the limit absorbing syrup, drowning in sweetness and temp chaos!
Allergen
Wheat, Dairy