Malida recipe
Serve warm along the meal!
Servings 8 (750 grams)
Calories 511kcal
Ingredients
For Dough:
- 2 cup (200 g) wheat flour
- ¼ cup ghee or cream
- 6 tablespoon semolina (sooji)
- ¼ cup warm milk
- 1 pinch salt
- ½ teaspoon cardamom powder
- Water as required
- Oil or ghee to fry
Other
- ½ cup mixed nuts crushed
- 2 tablespoon ghee for assembling
- ¼ cup gum (goond) crushed in bits
- ¾ -1 cup (150 g) shredded jaggery (gur,gol) less or more to taste
Instructions
Making Dough balls
- In a large bowl mix, wheat flour, semolina, clarified butter, milk powder and salt with hands until you have a crumbly mixture. Mix milk and water as required to make a tight dough.
- Form small 2 inch dough balls and press inside fist to imbed deep finger marks. (This is Muthia, and this shape of dough helps thorough cooking from inside.)
- In a wok, deep fry muthia in small batches in clarified butter or oil on medium flame until crispy golden.
- Let muthia cool than crumble with a food processor.
Assembling
- In same wok, deep fry crushed gum until it puffs up completely with constant stirring. Add puffed gum to crumble muthia. Mix well.
- Take 1 tablespoons clarified butter in a pan and fry cardamom powder, pistachio, almond, melon seeds for 30 seconds until crisp. Add to crumble muthia.
- In same pan, heat 1 tablespoon clarified butter and add grated jaggery. Let the jaggery melt to runny consistency. As it starts to boil from sides of pan pour melted jaggery over crumbled mixture. Mix thoroughly with a spoon. (Jaggery will be very hot, be careful.)
- To serve, heat Malida on slow heat and serve warm garnished with more nuts.
Nutrition
Calories: 511kcal | Carbohydrates: 84g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 25mg | Sodium: 13mg | Potassium: 144mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 29g | Vitamin A: 14IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 35mg | Iron: 4mg