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

- Heat water in a pan on medium heat.

- Add sugar and let it thicken.

- Simmer the syrup until it attains one string consistency.

- Add saffron and cardamom powder.

- Remove from heat and keep it aside.

- Mix all ingredients for the Malpua in a bowl. The batter should be thinner than the pancake batter.

- Beat the batter with a wooden spoon or use hand mixer and let it sit for 15 mins.

- 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.

- 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.

- Let it fry on one side and then turn over and fry the other side till both sides are golden brown.

- Drain on a wire rack or a paper towel.

- Make more malpuas in a similar manner.

- Now soak in the warm sugar syrup. Drain to drip excess syrup.

- Garnish with cardamom and serve.