Soft Mysore Pak - Diwali Sweets

 

Soft, melt in mouth Mysore Pak. Why am I saying soft Mysore Pak? Is there a hard mysore pak version too. No but store bought Mysore Pak is a bit stiff with lot of holes in it and also it is brown in the middle and golden yellow at the ends.  I saw a cook making this version of Mysore Pak when we had to make mysore pak in large quantity for a function at home. He used oil, ghee and cooking soda. I like this one too. I tried making that version few times never came out well. I don't know the proportion of oil and ghee. So following my mom's soft and tasty mysore pak.

My kids and  husband liked it so much that they finished it in a day. They just left a piece for me.

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Yummy treat with just 3 ingredients.

 

Ingredients

1 cup Besan flour

2 cups Sugar 

1 cup Water

3/4 - 1 cup Ghee

Directions

1. Sift Besan Flour to get rid of the lumps. Melt ghee. Grease a plate with ghee ready. Boil sugar and water for sugar syrup.

2. Keep a small bowl with water. Keep checking the consistency of sugar syrup. Pour a small quantity of sugar syrup in water. When you get string consistency as shown in picture add half the quantity of besan in sugar syrup. Mix it well from all sides. Then add the remaining quantity. Keep stirring it. There shouldn't be any lumps in that.

3. After mixing and stirring it for 5 minutes add half of melted ghee. Keep stirring again on a low flame. Now add remaining ghee. Mix it. The whole mixture frothy at one stage and there will be a nice cooked besan flour and ghee smell. The mixture also starts leaving the pan. Be quick now. Transfer this mixture onto the greased plate. Level it. Within a minute cut that into desired shape. Let it cool down for 30 minutes. Now you can easily take the pieces out.

4. Transfer this into a container and have these soft , yummy treat.