Sweets · Mitharaan
Mohanthal
Roasted gram flour fudge (Mohan Thal)
A rich, grainy gram-flour (besan) fudge: besan is roasted in ghee to a chocolate brown, moistened with milk, bound with a very thick 3-string sugar syrup, set in a greased thali and finished with poppy seeds. A mitho dessert for any meal or a tea-time sweet. It is considered one of Lord Krishna's favourite sweets.
Ingredients
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Cups are shown in grams or ml; spoons stay as spoons. Panja Khada’s own weights are used where they give them (1 cup of flour is 150 g, rice or dal 200 g, curd 225 g, milk or water 240 ml), and standard kitchen weights otherwise.
Method
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In a kadai (wok-style pan), heat the 50 g ghee on a medium flame. When it has melted, add the gram flour.
Keeping the flame medium, roast the gram flour until it is chocolate brown in colour. Only then add the milk, stirring continuously.
In a separate vessel, make a sugar syrup of 3-string consistency: heat the water, add the sugar and keep stirring until the sugar melts and the syrup reaches 3 strings; it will be very thick.
Add the sugar syrup to the gram-flour mixture and mix thoroughly. Keep cooking until all the syrup has blended in and the mixture has thickened.
Transfer the mixture to a greased thali (plate/tray).
Sprinkle the poppy seeds over it while it is still hot. Let it cool and set.
Cut into small pieces.
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Serve with
A dessert with any meal, or served at tea-time with Moti Channa or Besan Sev.
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Nutrition
EstimatedPer serving
180 kcal
- Protein
- 5 g
- Carbohydrate
- 25 g
- Fat
- 7 g
We estimate about 11 servings from the weight of the dish.
Whole recipe
2,010 kcal
- Protein
- 53 g
- Carbohydrate
- 279 g
- Fat
- 77 g
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These are estimates, worked out from the amounts in the recipe and typical values for each ingredient. Portion sizes and the exact amount of oil, ghee or sugar can change them a lot. How we estimate
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Name
Mohan (a name for Krishna) + thal (plate).
Where this recipe comes from
Recipe from Panja Khada by Bharat and Deepa Chachara.
See the original recipe and photos