Malpoa or Malpua, an Indian pancake recipe is consists of all-purpose flour or maida and semolina (sooji or rava), soaked in milk, deep fried in clarified butter (desi ghee) or Refined Oil, and dipped in sugar syrup (chashni or sira) with cardamom flavour.

Maidar Malpoa Recipe*

Course : Breakfast, Snack, Dessert, Sweets

Place of Origin : Eastern Indian subcontinent

Preparation Time : 15 minutes

Cook Time : 20 minutes

Ingredients for preparing the batter

All Purpose Flour or maida - 1 cup

Semolina - 1 tablespoon (optional)

Milk or water - 1 cup

Salt - 1 pinch

Fennel seeds - 1 teaspoon

Refine Oil for frying - 3/4 cup

Ghee - 2 teaspoons

Ingredients for preparing sugar syrup

Sugar - 2 cups

Water - 1 cup

Methods

For preparing the batter

In a bowl, add all purpose flour or maida, semolina (optional) salt and ghee. Mix well.

Start adding milk or water little by little and mix. Add the fennel seeds. Stir well to make a smooth lump less batter. Cover this and rest for half an hour.

For preparing sugar syrup

In a pan add sugar and water. Heat this. Stir until the sugar melts. Once the sugar gets dissolved, add milk in it to remove the impurities of sugar.

After adding milk, the foams appear on the surface of the sugar syrup. Take them out in a bowl with the help of a spatula. After removing the dirty foams, sugar syrup will become clean.

Boil till you get a syrup of one thread consistency.

HOW TO MAKE MAIDAR MALPOA

Final Steps

In a frying pan heat sufficient oil for frying.

Pour a small ladle full of batter in the hot oil. You need not spread this, the batter by itself will spread. Fry this each side on medium heat.

When the malpoa turns golden brown, remove this from the frying pan and keep aside.

Complete frying all the malpoas with the remaining batter.

Warm the sugar syrup. In the sugar syrup, soak the malpoa for 20 minutes. Then remove them from the sugar syrup.

Now Malpoa is ready to eat and serve.

Mai Malpoa Recipe- How to make Maidar Fried Malpoa- fried Malpoa

Fried Malpoas*

Alternatively, you can prepare Malpoas without soaking in the sugar syrup. You just have to mix sugar in the malpoa batter before frying. After adding and mixing the sugar, fry the malpoas till golden brown.

Serve hot or chilled fried Malpoas.

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