Mysorepak

This is one of the traditional south indian dishes which takes in a lot of ghee. you should be able to generously add lots of ghee in it. If you have been to Hyderabad Krishna's sweets ever, you will know how heavenly the mysorepak tastes.

I am proud that this recipe comes close to the krishna sweets recipe. The pic is not good here though:-).

Ingridients:-

Besan - 2 cups

Ghee - 5 cups

Sugar - 3 cups

1. Heat ghee in a pan and set aside

2. Take sugar and very little water so that it becomes liquid and heat it to a string consistency and set asid

3. Take besan in a pan and fry slowly till a nice aroma comes.

4. Now these steps are the key

Add a little ghee in the besan

Add a litle sugar syrup

Keep mixing

5. Repeat step 4 till you have finished all the sugar syrup and almost all ghee. Leave some ghee for later

6. Also as you are doing step 4 you will see that as soon as you add a little sugar syrup, the besan bloats up a little and becomes more. So if you started at 1/3 filled besan in the vessel, you will see at the end of step 5 that you have almost reached 2/3 of the vessel.

7. Now heat the left over ghee and as you see smoke coming out of the ghee, add this quickly to the besan you have on the other side. You will see that the besan rises now and your vessel is full.

8. In all these steps make sure that you are constantly stirring the besan vessel.

9. Now keep stirring for more time till you start seeing pores in the besan. Now here is the key

Keep stirring till you cannot stir anymore. You have to take off the besan from the heat at the right time for the right texture of the mysore pak.

10. Take off the besan from heat and spread over the greased edgy plate.

11. Within 5 mins it will become harder

12. Cut into diamond shapes as it is still hot

13. Allow to cool completely and take the peices out of the plate and store in air tight container.

This dish really requires good timing on Step 9. The final product you get should be of the correct texture that when you bite it, it should melt in your mouth. I bet when you eat this you will feel heavenly!!:-). Enjoy!