Name: Traditional Mysore Pak recipe by Hema Shakthi at BetterButter
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: Besan flour - 1 cup; Sugar - 2 cups; Ghee - 1 cup; Vanaspathi - 1 cup; Water - 1/2 cup

ABOUT Traditional Mysore Pak RECIPE

Making sweets is a tricky task and making mysore pak also needs some patience. If you are starting to do mysore pak in a traditional way, keep your mobiles away and do not attend any calls in between I am sharing the way I make mysore pak at home. This is the method which my mother does and I have followed the same method.

Instructions

In a pan heat 1 tablespoon of ghee and fry besan till you get nice aroma in a medium flame and remove and cool. Do not burn the besan.
Heat ghee and vanaspathi together in a pan.
In another heavy bottomed pan, add sugar and water and heat well. Heat till you get soft ball consistency. That is, take little water in a small cup. In that add some syrup and if you rool it will roll like a ball and when you take out the
Now immediately sprinkle the flour and mix well without forming lumps. Mix vigorously.
In the meantime, take a plate and grease with little ghee all over the plate and keep aside.
When the flour mixes well with the sugar syrup, add hot ghee little by little and mix well.
Ghee will be fully mixed with the flour and then it will become frothy.
Then ghee will start to ooze out. At this time switch off the flame and spread it in the plate which is greased by ghee.
When it is little hot itself, make lines with knife and keep aside. If it fully cools down, you cannot cut them.
When cooled fully, remove from the plate and store in an airtight container.

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