Mysore pak

Mysore pak  is a sweet dish of  Karnataka, India, usually served as dessert. It is made of generous amounts of ghee(clarified butter), sugar and gram flour(besan).

Now a days , smooth mysore pak is also available in market.

This sweet takes considerable amount of ghee . 

This dish is prepared in 15 mins, but in that 15 mins you should keep your mind and body entirely in that preparation.

Preparation time : 30 mins
Makes : Around 40 pieces

Ingredients :

Gram flour (or) besan : 1 1/2 cups
Oil + ghee : 2 cups ( i used half ghee and half oil, if you wish you can use entire ghee)
Sugar : 2 cups
Water : 1/2 cup

Method :

Take gram flour in bowl, add some hot oil (around 5 tbsp) and mix it good.
Take a sieve and sieve the flour.
Heat oil and ghee in one pan.
Parallelly take one more deep,big pan add sugar and water.
Keep the flame in medium high.
Check the consistency of sugar syrup.
You need one thread consistency or the other way to check this is take a small bowl with water and add little bit of sugar syrup, if it form a soft ball then it is ready.

Now add gram flour little by little,  mixing it continuously.
Mix it such a way that there are no lumps.
(we already added oil in gram flour that helps and we don't get any lumps because of that)

Keep mixing the mixture.
When you see small bubbles coming then you should add hot oil on it ladle by ladle,while continuously mixing it.
(The oil and ghee should be smoking hot)
You will see froth when you mixing it, that is what creates wholes in sweet.
The mixture should not stick to the pan.
When entire oil finished and when you see slightly the color is changing ,take it off from the flame.
Take a plate that is greased with oil , Pour this mixture in it.

Wait for 10 mins and run knife.
After 10 more mins take the pieces out.
Enjoy your sweet :)
When i first prepared this sweet, i am afraid of the ghee in the recipe and added only 3/4 cup ghee, then i ended up in besan halwa , if you want mysore pak then you should use that much ghee or oil.

Thank you, do post your comments :)