Monthar
Jun 5th, 2010
by Kalpana.
This is a Kachchhi traditional sweet
| Ingredients: |
- 500 gm Gram flour (besan) (thick)
- 400 gm Ghee
- 250 gm Sugar
- 250 gm Mava (khoya)
- 1 cup Milk
- 1 tsp Cardamom Powder
- Saffron
- Food color (yellow)
- Almonds (finely sliced) – for garnishing
Method:
- Sieve gram flour in a big plate (thali) & add 2 tsp of ghee to it.
- Heat milk & add to the flour.
- Mix it properly & keep it as it is for at least 5-6 hours.
- This will moisten it.
- Then sieve the flour light handedly.
- Don’t apply much pressure to smash the lumps.
- Take this flour in a vessel & add ghee to it alternately.
- Roast till golden brown.
- When done remove from flame & let it cool.
- Take another pan & put sugar in it.
- Add water till the sugar dips completely.
- Boil it to prepare 1stringed sugar syrup (i.e. ek tari chashni).
- Add colour & cardamom powder to it.
- Remove from heat & let it cool.
- Roast mava (khoya) till water is completely burnt & till it is golden brown.
- Remove from heat & let it cool.
- When the roasted gram flour becomes lukewarm, add it to lukewarm sugar syrup (chasni) along with lukewarm mava (khoya).
- Then mix all properly & immediately.
- Quickly invert it a greased plate & smooth the top with a steel bowl. [See that chasni or roasted gram flour is not hot or else it will harden the monthar]
- Garnish with almonds & after sometime cut into square pieces.
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Hi
I read your recipe for the monthar, it looks delicious but i am having trouble making it.
when you added heated up milk to gram flour the, flour turns to dough and you said to leave it 5-6 hours and then sieve it, how can you sieve dough. I mixed it and was left with dough.
thank you