Vegan Malpua Recipe without Khoya

Malpua is a delicious round fried bread that's soaked in sugar syrup. It's perfect to meet all your sugar cravings!

Ingredients

For Malpua

• 1\2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tbsp semolina flour or wheat flour
• 5-7 cashews soaked in hot water and grind to paste
• 1-1/2 cups of almond milk ( heat up milk and reduce to thicken )
• 2 cups of Crisco vegetable shortening for frying
• Cut or crush pistachios or shave almonds to garnish
• pinch of saffron

For sugar syrup

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup water

Method

1. Heat water in a pan on medium heat.
2. Add sugar and let it thicken.
3. Simmer the syrup until it attains one string consistency.
4. Add saffron and cardamom powder.
5. Remove from heat and keep it aside.
6. Mix all ingredients for the Malpua in a bowl. The batter should be thinner than the pancake batter.

7. Beat the batter with a wooden spoon or use hand mixer and let it sit for 15 mins.
8. Now, take a 6" flat bottom heavy pan and fill it up to 1/2" with Crisco oil. You can gradually you can add more if needed.
9. When the oil is at a frying temperature, pour the batter in center of pan and spread make 4” rounds with a deep spoon ladle.
10. Let it fry on one side and then turn over and fry the other side till both sides are golden brown.
11. Drain on a wire rack or a paper towel.
12. Make more malpuas in a similar manner.
13. Now soak in the warm sugar syrup. Drain to drip excess syrup.
14. Garnish with cardamom and serve.