Mohanthal

Name: Mohanthal
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: for sugar syrup :-; 1 cup sugar; 3/4 cup water; 1/4 tsp Saffron/kesar threads (optional); 1/4 tsp Cardamom powder/Elaichi; 2 cups gram flour/besan; other ingredients :-; 3 tbsp clarified butter/ghee; 3 tbsp milk; 1 cup clarified butter/ghee

Navneet Kaur @cook_9222331

Chandigarh

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Navneet Kaur @cook_9222331

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Ingredients

30 minutes

10 servings

for sugar syrup :-
1 cup sugar
3/4 cupwater
1/4 tspSaffron/kesar threads (optional)
1/4 tspCardamom powder/Elaichi
2 cups gram flour/besan
other ingredients :-
3 tbspclarified butter/ghee
3 tbspmilk
1 cupclarified butter/ghee

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Steps

30 minutes

1

Firstly, in a large bowl take besan and crumble with ghee and milk.
2

Sieve the crumbled besan with the help of sieve. keep aside.
3

Combine everything from sugar syrup ingredientes and cook this sugar syrup of 2 string consistency.
4

Now in a large thick bottomed kadai, heat a cup of ghee.
5

Add in crumbled and sieved besan.Combine well keeping the flame on low.
6

Keeping the flame on low-medium till the mixture turns golden brown.Transfer the sugar syrup over besan mixture.
7

Stir continuously, till the sugar syrups combines well with besan mixture.
8

Continue to stir for 5 minutes or til the mixture cools and slightly thickens.(no cooking here)
9

Further the ghee absorbs and the mixture turns sticky.
10

Transfer the mixture to the ghee greased plate. level it up and set to a block making an inch thick.
11

Add finely chopped pistachios and cashews. cool completely for 2-3 hours.
12

Cut the mohanthal into square pieces. finally, serve or store mohanthal for a week by refrigerating.