Malpua Recipe | Easy Homemade Malpua

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.

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Recipe Info

Prep Time 20 mins

Cook Time 39 mins

Total Time 59 mins

Servings 6

Category Desserts

Cuisine Indian

Nutrition

Calories: 315kcal | Carbohydrates: 73g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 10g

Ingredients For Malpua Recipe | Easy Homemade Malpua

  

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For the Pancakes

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

For the Sugar Syrup

• 1.5 Cups Water
• 1/2 Cup Sugar
• 4 Hari Elaichi Powder (Green Cardamom 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.
  
• Add Semolina (Sooji) and Powdered Sugar to the bowl.
  
• Mix all these dry ingredients well. Add water in desired quantity to make a batter of smooth consistency. Ensure that there are no lumps.
  
• 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.
  

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).
  
• Remove the skin from 4-5 pieces of Green Cardamom (Elaichi) and crush the inner seeds.
  
• Add the crushed Green Cardamom to the syrup. Allow the syrup to cool to room temperature.
  

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.
  
• Allow it to cook for 1-2 minutes and flip to the other side.
  
• Repeat flip till both sides become golden brown in color.
  

Assembling & serving

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

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