Malpua Recipe | Easy Homemade Malpua

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Malpua is a delectable pancake recipe made from refined flour and semolina. It is then deep fried in clarified butter (Desi Ghee) and dunked in flavored sugar syrup (Chashni).

Malpua is a truly traditional Indian Dessert which is very popular and extremely irresistible. While Malpua is popular all over the Indian subcontinent as a sweet dish, it also serves as special sweet on occasion of festivals.

It is a very popular dish in the Indian state of Odisha and is served as morning food to Lord Jagannath of Puri. It is also a popular sweet during Muslim festival of Eid in the Indian subcontinent.

Malpuas dipped in a flavored sugar syrup are an extremely indulgent sweet. They go very well when served with a topping of creamy Rabri (sweet thickened milk).

To make Malpua at home follow the detailed step by step recipe with photos posted below.

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Malpua Recipe | Easy Homemade Malpua

Malpua is a traditional Indian Pancake made of flour and semolina. It is deep fried & dunked in a sugar syrup to make an irresistible dessert.
4.78 from 156 votes

Recipe Info

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 39 minutes
Total Time 59 minutes
Servings 6
Category Desserts
Cuisine Indian

Ingredients For Malpua Recipe | Easy Homemade Malpua
  

For the Pancakes

  • 1 Cup Maida (Plain Flour / All Purpose Flour)
  • 2 Teaspoons Sooji (Rava / Semolina)
  • 2 Teaspoons Powdered Sugar
  • 3 Slices Bread
  • 1/2 Teaspoon Green Cardamom Powder (Hari Elaichi Powder)
  • 2 Tablespoons Pistachios (Pista) finely sliced
  • 2 Tablespoons Almonds (Baadam) finely sliced
  • 3 Tablespoons Ghee (Clarified Butter)

For the Sugar Syrup

  • 1.5 Cups Water
  • 1/2 Cup Sugar
  • 4 Green Cardamom Powder (Hari Elaichi Powder)
  • 5-6 Saffron Strands (Kesar)

Step By Step Instructions for Malpua Recipe | Easy Homemade Malpua
 

Preparing the malpua batter

  • Take Plain Flour (Maida) in a working bowl.
    Malpua Recipe Step By Step Instructions 1
  • Add Semolina (Sooji) and Powdered Sugar to the bowl.
    Malpua Recipe Step By Step Instructions 3
  • Mix all these dry ingredients well. Add water in desired quantity to make a batter of smooth consistency. Ensure that there are no lumps.
    Malpua Recipe Step By Step Instructions 4
  • Take 3 slices of white bread and crumble them in a food processor. Bread here is used as a substitute of yeast for fermentation. Add this crumbled bread to the batter, mix well and leave it aside for 15 minutes to allow fermentation.
    Malpua Recipe Step By Step Instructions 6

Preparing the sugar syrup

  • In the meantime you can prepare the Sugar Syrup. Take a pan with broad base. Add 1/4 cup water to it and keep it on the flame. Add sugar to the water and heat it for 6-7 minutes to get a sugar syrup of flowing consistency.
  • Take the syrup off the flame and add Saffron Strands (Kesar).
    Malpua Recipe Step By Step Instructions 10
  • Remove the skin from 4-5 pieces of Green Cardamom (Elaichi) and crush the inner seeds.
    Malpua Recipe Step By Step Instructions 8
  • Add the crushed Green Cardamom to the syrup. Allow the syrup to cool to room temperature.
    Malpua Recipe Step By Step Instructions 11

Frying the malpua

  • Take a Pan (Kadai) and heat 3 spoons of Clarified Butter (Ghee) in it. When hot pour 1 big spoon of the pancake batter into it. This pouring should take place in center of the pan and should be from a little height and also bit spread out to about a 2 inch circle as shown in the picture below.
    Malpua Recipe Step By Step Instructions 12
  • Allow it to cook for 1-2 minutes and flip to the other side.
  • Repeat flip till both sides become golden brown in color.
    Malpua Recipe Step By Step Instructions 14

Assembling & serving

  • Dip the cooked pancakes in the sugar syrup.
    Malpua Recipe Step By Step Instructions 15
  • Malpua is ready. Take them out of sugar syrup and place on plate. Garnish them with finely chopped Almonds and Pistachios and serve hot.
    Malpua Recipe Step By Step Instructions 17

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