Name: Malpua (Fried pancakes)
Prep time: 6 h 5 min
Cook time: 17 min
Total time: 6 h 22 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 6 green cardamom pods, cracked; 70 g (2½ oz/¼ cup) Greek-style yoghurt or buffalo curd, whipped with a whisk until smooth; 285 g (10 oz/1½ cups) rapadura sugar or grated palm sugar (jaggery); 1 tablespoon chopped almonds; ¼ teaspoon baking powder; 250 g (9 oz/2 cups, lightly packed) grated white palm sugar (jaggery); rice bran or grapeseed oil, for shallow-frying; 1 teaspoon fennel seeds; 125 ml (4 fl oz/½ cup) warm milk; a pinch of salt; ½ teaspoon poppy seeds; ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom; 750 ml (26 fl oz/3 cups) water; 150 g (5½ oz/1 cup) plain (all-purpose) flour

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
7 hr

Appears in

Lands of the Curry Leaf

By Peter Kuruvita

Published 2018

About

Enjoyed as a snack or dessert, malpua are famously prepared during the holy month of Ramadan by Muslim families across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to break their fast. In some regions the batter is prepared by crushing ripe bananas (or in Bangladesh, coconut), adding flour, and water or milk, and perhaps a pinch of cardamom. It is deep-fried in oil and served hot. The Bihari version has sugar added to the batter prior to frying, while in nearby Odisha the fritters are dipped in syrup aft

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