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4 Desi Sweets To Enjoy In Monsoon

The monsoon season has its own traditional sweets. Here are a few of them that you must try.

Malpua

Grate mawa and then blend it with milk and maida. Make the sugar syrup by boiling sugar, cardamom powder, and water. Heat oil in a pan and add ladles of the batter to it. Cook the malpuas until they are golden brown. Coat the cooked malpuas in the sugar syrup for some time. Garnish with finely chopped almonds and pistachios.

Patoli

Heat some water along with rice flour and salt in a pan. Leave this to cool. Melt jaggery in a pan and add grated coconut and cardamom powder. Once the rice flour mix forms a dough-like consistency, take a small ball of the dough and roll it flat on a banana leaf. Put the stuffing on the dough and then fold the banana leaf. Place the folded banana leaf in a steamer.

Ghevar

Melt ghee. As soon as the ghee becomes hot, pour it into a separate vessel and add ice to it to make a cool, fluffy ghee. Gradually add maida, mixing it with the ghee at every step to form a crumbly dough. Add water to make the dough thin. Heat oil in a kadhai and add ladles of the dough to it. As the ghevar cooks, it will form an intricate texture that almost looks like a coral. Dip it in sugar syrup and top it with rabri.

Balushahi

Mix maida with ghee and add curd and a pinch of baking soda to it. Heat sugar, cardamom powder, black peppercorns, and fennel seeds in a pan. Make balls of the dough and cook it in ghee. Then after cooling the balushahi for a few minutes, cook it in the mix of sugar syrup.