Mohanthal

 Mohanthal is a Gujarati Recipe . It is a  traditional festive sweet made from gram flour and cooked slowly to a dense fudge garnished with nuts.

Ingredients 

Bengal Gram flour - 1 cup

Sugar - 1/2 cup

ghee - 6 tbsp.

mawa / fresh cream - 100 g

almonds, pistachios - for garnishing

Preparation

1. Add 3 tbsp of ghee and 10 ml of milk into the gram flour in a plate and combine well with fingers to make a mixture that feels like coarse crumbs. Stir in the milk to the above coarse crumbs mixture and rub between the palms to combine well.

2.Heat the remaining ghee in a heavy bottomed pan and add the above flour mixture, stirring continuously for about 5 minutes.  Add mawa / fresh cream  until it changes into golden brown and releases a roasted aroma about 7 to 10 minutes. Stir in the nuts and cardamom until combined.

3.Transfer the mixture to a plate and let it cool down.

4.In another sauce pan; heat sugar with 1 cup water simmering it until it reaches a single thread consistency, about 10 minutes.

5.Transfer the mixture to the sugar syrup and combine well.

6.  Transfer the Mohanthal mixture into the tray, leveling such that the Mohanthal is about two inches in height.

7.Cut the Mohanthal into squares and allow it to cool on the tray . Once cooled completely, separate the squares and serve.