Mysore Pak Recipe – Sharmis Passion

Mysore Pak is a traditional melt-in-the-mouth sweet dish usually made in homes during Diwali and special occasions. Mysore Pak is a divine tasting sweet made using gram flour, sugar and ghee. Learn how to make perfect Mysore Pak with step by step pictures.

Mysore Pak – I love this any time and I never believed that I could make this at home. My daughter loves Sri Krishna Sweets Mysore Pak and that’s the main reason I wanted to try it, yes, she liked it and asked for more. This version is very soft, not exactly like SKS as the ghee does not come out, but the taste is very close to it.

About Mysore Pak

Mysore is a traditional melt-in-the-mouth sweet made during festivals and special occasions. This sweet can be easily made at home in just a few minutes with just 3 main ingredients.

The first time I tried it, everything turned out perfect except I got a slight raw smell of the gram flour (only I could smell it and wasn’t sure where I went wrong) so when I tried it next time I posted I took an extra step of roasting and then sifting it…voila!! It was suitable in terms of both texture and taste. Since then it has been a keeper recipe of Mysore Pak.

This version of Mysore Paa/Mysore Pak is very easy to make even for a beginner. Trust me, if I had done it right the first time I’m sure everyone can do it right. So go ahead to make this easy Mysore Pak and enjoy!

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Mysore Cooking Ingredients

• Gram flour – Use fine gram flour which works best for Mysore Pak.
• Sugar – Use white granulated sugar.
• Ghee – Ghee is the main flavoring ingredient here so homemade pure ghee is best.

how to make Mysore Pak step by step

1. Put one spoon of ghee in a non-stick pan, add gram flour and fry till a nice aroma comes out, for about 3-4 minutes. Then sieve it once so that the flour becomes fine without any lumps. Now add roasted gram flour in ¾ cup of ghee in a bowl and mix well.

2. The ghee and gram flour mixture will thicken a little. Keep aside for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, grease a plate with some ghee and keep it aside. Now add sugar and water in a nonstick pan, boil it on medium flame and check for a string consistency – if you take the sugar syrup between thumb and forefinger a string will form which is the right consistency.

3.Now add gram flour and ghee mixture to the sugar syrup. Now add remaining ¼ cup ghee in between to prevent it from drying and mix well. Keep stirring continuously.

4.Now keep the flame low and keep mixing, add some ghee. Can you see in the pictures below that when scraping with a ladle it will stick first.

5. In one step, it will come into a ball form without sticking at all. Now the mixture will not remain sticky. – At this time switch off the switch and put it in a greased plate. There is no need to flatten it, it will spread out beautifully on its own. When hot, cut it into square/diamond pieces as desired and enjoy your Mysore Pak. I poured it onto a large plate so that my pieces remained thin because I wanted them that way. You can select the plate as per your choice. Be very careful while checking the final consistency otherwise your Mysore Pak will not be soft.

The slices are totally your choice, you can either slice it thin like this or put it in thick slices in a small plate like in sweet shops, either way it’s good.

Expert Tips

• The 2 steps you have to be very careful about are: checking the consistency of a string of sugar syrup and the final mysore pak consistency
• While stirring simultaneously, keep it on low flame.
• The color of Mysore Pak also depends on the gram flour. The flour we get here is of nice dark yellow colour.
• In the last stage the ghee comes out a little and when it cools down it gets completely absorbed.
• Once you have added the gram flour, be very careful and start adding the ghee. It absorbs ghee quickly, so do not add it whole but add it in pieces.
• Also if the last stage is stopped late by even a minute your mysore packs will not become soft.

serving and storage

Mysore Pak can be served as a tea time snack. It stays good for up to 5 days at room temperature and about 2 weeks in the refrigerator.

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