Ingredients:

  • For Malpua Batter 
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour/maida
  • 3 teaspoons unsweetened khoa/mawa
  • 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
  • Water
  • For Sugar syrup 
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoon milk
  • 1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder
  • For Frying 
  • Oil/ghee
  • For Rabri
  • 1-liter milk
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder
  • A pinch of saffron
  • California walnuts

Preparation:

Malpua Batter

  1. Mix all-purpose flour/maida and unsweetened khoa/mawa, then add fennel seeds and to it mix.
  2. Gradually add water and mix to a thick flowing batter.
  3. Ferment the batter for 12 hours.

Sugar syrup

  1. Boil water and add sugar and cardamom pods to it.
  2. Stir it until the sugar dissolves, then let it boil for another 5 mins on medium flame.
  3. Keep the sugar syrup aside

Rabri

  1. Heat a thick-bottomed pot with the milk. Keep the flame on medium-low and continuously stir the milk
  2. Once the milk reduces to half, add the sugar, cardamom powder, and saffron strands, mix well.
  3. Soak walnuts for 2 hours, then chop them finely and add the walnuts to the rabri and mix well.
  4. The rabri is done.

Malpua

  1. Heat oil in a wide pan.
  2. Gently pour the fermented batter. Flip them and fry till it turns crisp and golden in color. Now add the fried malpua to the sugar syrup.
  3. Soak in sugar syrup for 2 minutes.
  4. Serve the malpua with rabri, chopped walnuts, and saffron.