Ghee mysore pak recipe with step by step pictures

Ghee mysore pak is a traditional south-indian sweet. It is rich in taste and just melts in mouth. It is a easy to cook sweet and tastes amazingly great. It needs only few ingredients that is easily available in our kitchen. Still it is a festive season, I have been trying many sweets and savouries. This ghee mysore pak is one of my favorites and sure this recipe never gone fail. Just follow the tricks and tips to get soft mysore pak, then you won't buy mysore pak in stores.

Hope you like the recipe and try it in your home. Check out the ghee mysore pak recipe below with step by step pictures.

Enjoy the food !

Ingredients :

. Gram flour - 1 cup

. Ghee - 3/4 cup

. Oil - 1/4 cup + 2 tblsp ( I have used groundnut oil)

. Sugar - 1 cup

. Water - 1/2 cup

Method :

1. Grease the pan in which you are going to pour the mixture. Keep it aside.

2. Take ghee and oil in a bowl. Place it over low flame. Wait for a min just to melt the ghee. Turn off the flame.

3. Take gram flour in a bowl. Add half of the ghee and oil mixture to gram flour. Mix well without any lumps. Keep it aside.

4. Take sugar in a kadai. Add water to it. Mix well. Place it over flame. Cook until you get one string consistency.

5. Pour the gram flour mixture into sugar syrup. Mix well until it combines well. It becomes forthy. Stir continuosly .

6. Add half of the remaining ghee and oil mixture to it. Mix well until it combines. Again add the remaining ghee and oil.

7. Keep stiring until it gets thickened and don't stick to the kadai. It takes atleast 15 - 20 mins for the whole process.

8. When you get the right consistency, immediately pour it without delay into the pan that we have greased with ghee already.

9. Tap the pan and use your laddle to level it. Rest it for about 3 hours.

10. After 3 hours, invert the pan to unmould the mysore pak. Cut it with a knife. Serve the tasty mysore pak.

Pictorial :

Grease the pan which we are going to pour the mysore pak batter. ( the mysore pak batter must be poured immediately without any delay, that is why we are greasing the pan and keep it ready) . Keep the pan aside

Take ghee and oil

Mix both oil and ghee in a bowl

Place it over low flame

Ghee gets melted. It takes 1 min to melt. Turn off the flame

Take gram flour in a bowl

Add half of the melted ghee and oil mixture to gram flour

Mix well without any lumps. Keep it aside

Take sugar in a kadai

Add water to it

Mix well. Place over flame. (Do not place sugar over flame without adding water, it may get caramelized)

Cook for 5 mins. Scarp the sides and stir in between

Let it gets thickened

Check the sugar syrup. Cook until you get 1 string consistency. ( 1 string consistency is that, if you take a drop of sugar syrup in between your fingers, hold a sec and open your fingers, you can see a string in between your fingers just as showed in the picture)