Description
Soft and aromatic wheat flour malpuas served with rich, creamy homemade rabri. This traditional Indian dessert is flavored with saffron, cardamom, and fennel for a delightful festive treat.
Ingredients
- ½ cup Wheat flour
- ½ tsp Fennel seeds powder
- ¼ cup Sugar
- 1 Cardamom (powdered)
- 1 pinch Cooking soda (Optional)
- 10 strands Saffron
- 1 pinch Salt
- Ghee or oil (to shallow fry)
- 4 cups Milk
- 8 Pistachios (soaked, peeled and chopped)
- 3 tbsp Sugar (adjust to taste)
Instructions
- To prepare rabri, boil milk in a broad heavy-bottomed vessel.
- Add sugar and cook on medium to low flame.
- Keep boiling and scrape the sides of the pan, mixing the malai layer back into the milk.
- Repeat scraping every 2 minutes. Add soaked, peeled, and chopped pistachios in between.
- Continue cooking until the milk reduces, thickens, and turns cream in color. Switch off the flame slightly before desired thickness as it thickens further on cooling. Keep aside.
- To prepare malpua batter, mix wheat flour, sugar, fennel powder, cardamom powder, salt, saffron, and cooking soda in a bowl.
- Add water gradually to form a medium-thick batter without lumps.
- Heat ghee or oil in a non-stick pan for shallow frying.
- Pour a big spoonful of batter into the hot oil and cook on medium flame.
- Spoon hot oil over the malpua while cooking. Flip and cook until both sides turn golden brown.
- Repeat with remaining batter.
- Serve warm malpuas topped with prepared rabri.
Notes
- Adjust sugar in rabri according to your sweetness preference.
- Cooking soda helps make softer malpuas but can be skipped.
- Rabri thickens as it cools, so switch off slightly earlier.
- Serve warm for best taste.
- Store rabri refrigerated for up to 2 days.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Shallow Fry
- Cuisine: Indian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 320 kcal
- Sugar: 28 g
- Sodium: 90 mg
- Fat: 14 g
- Saturated Fat: 8 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 42 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 7 g
- Cholesterol: 35 mg
