Mysore pak

Mysore pak is an Indian sweet. The story goes that the king of Mysore wanted a dessert and his chef Kakasura Madappa mixed besan flour ( bengal gram flour - a type of chickpea flour), sugar and butter and came up with this sweet. It was one of the first sweets I learned how to make and enjoy making it. If you are uncomfortable with trying to figure out the string stage of the sugar syrup manually you can get a candy thermometer that has this marked on it !

Ingredients 

Gram flour ( Bengal gram / besan flour) - 1 cup

Sugar - 2 cups

Ghee - 1.75 cups 

Water - 1 cup 

Instructions 

1. Take a sieve and sieve the gram flour so that it is fine with no lumps

2. Place a heavy bottomed pot on low- medium heat and dry roast the gram flour until the raw smell is gone 

3. Place the flour in a bowl and set aside 

4. Clean the pot out so there is no flour sticking to it 

5. Now add the 2 cups of sugar and 1 cup of water to the pot and place on medium heat and mix well and let it boil until it reaches the one string consistency ( this is when you can put the sugar syrup between your fingers and when you pull it apart it forms a string 

I didn’t take a picture of the single string stage , so I am using  a picture from this  website 

Make sure you are careful since the sugar is hot. 

6. Now lower the heat and add the besan flour to the sugar syrup a little at a time and using a whisk mix it in smoothly.

7. Finally add the ghee into the mixture and this will make it more liquid. Keep stirring until the ghee starts coming off the side 

8. Now turn off the stove and pour the mixture in a pan greased with butter 

9. Cut into small squares when hot and let it cool for about half hour 

10. Now you can take the squares out and Mysore pak is ready to serve !