Malpua

Malpua is a very delicious and popular sweet dish of Bihar. It is customary to make this dish during the major festivals like Holi.

 

Ingredients:

Maida(Refined flour) 250 gm., Milk 1 liter boiled till it becomes 250ml, khoya 50 gm., coconut powder 2table  spoons, 2 small cardamom powder, sugar 1 cup, edible oil 250 ml.

Procedure:

Mix well maida, khoya, coconut powder and cardamom powder into thickened milk to make a batter of moderate thickness adding some normal milk if required. Heat oil in a deep pan and fry small portions of batter to make round palm size Malpuas. While frying, turn the Malpuas and remove from oil when they turn brown.

Prepare syrup of sugar by mixing a cup sugar in two glasses of water and boiling on medium heat.

Now dip the Malpuas into the Syrup. Add some cream or rabri for making it more tasty. The delicious Bihari sweet dish Malpuas are now ready to serve.

As a variation finely chopped dry fruits may be added to the batter instead of coconut powder.

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Aloo Parwal Dum (Potato and Pointed Gourd Curry)

Parwal is a very popular vegetable of Bihar. It is supposed to be very good for stomach, fibrous and very easy to digest. Vegetable Dishes made of Parwal are very tasty and popular in Bihar. One such dish is the Aloo Parwal Dum.

 

Ingredients:

Parwal 500 gm., 2 potatoes, Onion 1 chopped, paste of onion 2 table spoons, garlic 1 tea spoon, ginger 1 tea spoon , 1 tea spoon garam masala powder, Dhaniya (coriander) powder 1 tea spoon, jeera powder 1 tea spoon, black pepper powder half spoon, red chili powder 1 tea spoon, Oil 4 table spoon, salt to taste.

Procedure:

Cut Parwal in medium pieces. Boil the potatoes, peel them off and cut into medium pieces.

Heat oil in a kadai and fry the Parwal pieces adding some salt and remove when they are light brown.

Heat oil in kadai, put 2 pieces of tejpatta and chopped onion and fry till it becomes brown. Add the cut pieces of potato and fried Parwal, salt, paste of garlic, ginger and onion, haldi powder 1 spoon and other powders except garam masala and cook on medium flame till the spices are cooked.

Add water to make curry and allow it to boil. Add 1 spoon garam masala and stop when the curry has reached desired thickness. Garnish the curry with green coriander leaves.

The delicious Bihari dish, Aloo Parwal Dum is now ready to serve and can be had with rice, roti or paratha.

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