Mohanthaal By B_kajaria

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Mohanthaal is a specialty indian dessert recipe or sweet dish which is prepared by cooking together besan, mawa with ghee and sugar. Serve mohanthal garnished with crushed nuts as a sweet dish after meals.

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Gujarati Sweet Mithai

Preparation Time: 10 mins Cooking Time: 20 mins Total Time: 30 mins 4Makes 4 servings
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Ingredients

1 cup besan (bengal gram flour)
50 gms mava (khoya)
1/2 cup ghee
2/3 cup sugar
1/4 tsp cardamom (elaichi) powder
a few saffron (kesar) strands
1/8 tsp nutmeg (jaiphal) powder
few almond (badam) slivers for garnishing
2 tbsp milk

Method

Heat the ghee in a pan.
Take besan in a thali, make a depression at the centre and pour 1 tbsp of hot ghee, add 1 tbsp of milk on top of hot ghee
Repeat the process once again by pouring 1 or 2 tbsp of hot ghee more, mix well.
Saute the flour on low flame till light brown with the remaining ghee.
Add the mava and saute again till reddish brown. Keep aside.
Add 1/3 cup water to the sugar, mix well and boil to prepare syrup of 1 ½ string consistency.
Pour the syrup over the flour, add all the masalas and mix well and keep aside, till it thickens on its own.
Pour in a greased thali and spread well.
Sprinkle slices of almond and pistachio.
When cool cut into pieces.