Mysore Pak (Gram Flour Fudge) - A Dessert from Karnataka

Hello Friends,


I am the biggest fan of this desert in the world (at least I think so). All my friends here know that when they go to Bangalore on their trip to India (who have families there), will have to bring this dessert back for me. I absolutely love it. I know, I know, no wonder I cannot rid of those double digit pounds that I am trying my best to loose.


I had about 7 different recipes of this delicacy bookmarked from different sources. Every recipe was slightly different. Here is what I ended up doing. This time, I did not roast besan (Gram Flour), next time I will try that and post another version of this delicacy.


In only took about 15 min. from start to finish, wasn't that quick :) I could make 24 pieces of the size you in pic with the ingredients mentioned here. It was totally worth the effort and melt in the mouth kind.

Mysore Pak (Gram Flour Fudge)

Ingredients

Besan (Gram Flour) - 1 cup, sieved well

Ghee - 2 cups (I have seen people using up to 2.5 cups of ghee, it will just give it more softer texture, so feel free to go for 2.5 cups)

Sugar - 2.5 cups (depending on your sweet tooth, you can go up to 3 cups)

Water - 3/4 cup

Preparation

• Sieve besan well till there are no lumps (I kind of skipped and had teeny-tiny lumps in my end result).
• Grease a square pan well and keep aside.
• Heat water and sugar together in a heavy bottomed pan or preferably kadahi (wok).
• Meanwhile, in another pot, heat ghee.
• Let the sugar/water mixture come to boil and form 1 string syrup.
• Slowly add besan to it, stirring continuously till all is mixed well without any lumps.
• Now, slowly start adding spoonfuls of ghee from one hand to the besan mixture while stirring the mixture with other hand. At this point, if you another adult at home, please get help as stirring the mixture with one hand itself is a tiring task.
• Keep repeating the above step, till all the ghee is exhausted.
• Keep stirring the mixture, till ghee starts separating from the sides and you start seeing a slight change in the color (I felt like I could have gone 1-2 more min. on my color, but the taste was superb).
• Switch off the stove and slowly pour this mixture in the greased pan.
• Cut them into squares or diamonds, right away before it gets time to cool down.
• Let it cool down before you indulge into it as otherwise, it will burn your throat :)

Serving

Eat it anytime you feel like. Don't forget that each piece easily has about 350-450 calories at least.

That's all for now. Take care till next post.