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Eggless Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake … as delicious as it is pretty!

Eggless Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake… Mangoes, saffron and pistachios come together to create magic, a cake worth every crumb! Hello mango season, I think this is my favourite season just because we are blessed by the best mangoes there ever were!

M is for May, M is for mangoes, or rather an abundance of mangoes. It’s probably the only way to survive the unforgiving, harsh Indian summer where the plains of North India sizzle at 45C-50C. We are quite happy to drown under a deluge of the king of fruits, the luscious mango that makes summer bearable, beautiful too!

If you stop by my feed on Instagram, you might instantly pick out my love for desserts in seasonal flavours, a touch of saffron, a sprinkling of pistachios, that finish with edible flowers or rose petals. For me, it’s always been the visuals and the taste, both equally important, both come together to tell the story like the screenshot below!

These days I’m smitten with mangoes as you might have already guessed. I love the pop of colour they add, I love how beautifully they can lift up a dessert, how well they compliment gentle flavours like rose, saffron, pistachio and how incredibly delicious they are! It’s a fruit we absolutely love to love on the subcontinent, and I believe it brings out the best of our creativity.

This Eggless Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake brings together one of my favourite flavour combinations for summer, a celebration of all things Indian! You can find a load of these flavours in Indian desserts or mithai, and they always remind you of how beautifully the ingredients pair together.

Quintessentially Indian, our cuisine is a riot of colours with flavours like these, an inspiration to create pleasing desserts! I really enjoy doing just that …

The Eggless Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake Recipe is an eggless cake baked in a special tart tin with an indent, a cake that turned out as delicious as it was pretty. The recipe is a simple one bowl part wholegrain eggless pistachio saffron sponge baked up beautifully in this favourite flan tin.

I doused the cake generously with a deep infused saffron milk, filled the indent of the flan tin {shared below} with the best mangoes of the season, then smothered them with a cream filling. Every slice of the cake is delightful and screams mango season. If you’re looking for the special mango cake this season, honestly this is it!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

Indian Inspired Desserts

Desserts with Pistachios

Desserts with Saffron

Eggless Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake

Mangoes, saffron and pistachios come together to create magic, an eggless cake worth every crumb! Makes one 8" tart cake

Course Dessert

Cuisine American, British, Indian

Keyword agar agar, baking, cake, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, eggless layered cake, fruit, Indian dessert cake, mangoes, one bowl, pistachios, saffron, simple, summer dessert, tart cake, tropical

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 45

Cooling & Setting time 6

Total Time 7 15

Servings 6 people

Equipment

1 Flan tin

Ingredients

Eggless saffron pistachio tart cake

210 g buttermilk
35 g oil
15 g clarified butter/ghee
Generous pinch saffron
2 tbsp finely chopped pistachios
100 g castor sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
Pinch salt
50 g wholewheat flour/aata
115 g plain flour/maida

Saffron milk

Generous pinch of saffron + 100ml milk + 1 tsp sugar steeped overnight

Cream filling

100 g cream 25% fat
1 tsp agar agar
50 g white couverture chocolate chopped
100 g cream cheese softened

Fruit filling to fill indent

100 g freshly diced mango

To finish

chopped pistachios, diced mango, rose petals, mint etc

Instructions

Eggless saffron pistachio tart cake

Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly grease an 8" loose bottom flan tin.
In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and give them a good whisk with a balloon whisk/electric whisk.
Pour the batter into the prepared tin, and tap on the counter to level.
Bake for 30 minutes, until the tester comes out clean.
Cool completely, then demold the cake gently and place it upside-down on the serving platter.

Cream filling

Place the cream, sugar and agar agar in a saucepan and whisk until smooth. Simmer over low heat for 2-3 minutes stirring often to activate the agar agar.
Pour this over the white chocolate and leave to stand until the chocolate melts. Whisk until smooth. Stand over warm water if required.
Whisk in the cream cheese just before you need to pour it in. Taste and adjust sweetness as desired.

Topping

Dice the mangoes and fill the indent with them then top the cake with them.

Assemble (see video}

Moisten the cake with the steeped saffron milk.
Fill the cavity with diced mangoes, then pour the cream filling over.
Place the cake in the fridge to set overnight.
Garnish with finely chopped pistachios, diced mangoes, fresh rose petals, mint etc

Video

So Delicious! 10 Eggless Spring Desserts almost too pretty to eat. Make them now…

So Delicious! 10 Eggless Spring Desserts almost too pretty to eat, so refreshing, so fun! That favourite time of the year where there’s new energy everywhere … new leaves, buds, shoots, nests being made, baby birds fluttering around; the world is literally born again!

Hello Spring! It’s only late February and this year Spring has arrived too early, the temperatures already hitting an astonishing 30C. It’s been the hottest February in decades yet somehow it’s a sign of the times with unpredictable weather. The mulberry tree is already showing fruit, and the festival of colour Holi is around the corner.

Staying in tune with the weather, here are some pretty and pretty refreshing desserts for this time of the year. They are eggless, they are simple and they have light, fresh appeal! These are charming, colourful desserts that find their way to our table over and over again. Hopefully they will keep you charmed too, make you happy!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Eggless Strawberry Charlotte Cake

As delicious as it is pretty! Light buttery addictive eggless homemade lady fingers build up the sides, a spiral baked of the same dough make the base. The filling is a silky smooth cream in two flavours, strawberry and vanilla bean, separated by a layer of fresh strawberries. It's a special cake, quite irresistible.

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Eggless Baked Lime Curd White Chocolate Pudding

Light, dreamy, mousse like and bowl scraping good, here’s a baked eggless pudding that’ll have you hooked.

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Eggless Strawberry Love Cake

This is a cavity cake filled with everything that screams love – the most perfect strawberries, luscious dark chocolate cream, then an indulgent vanilla bean cream, all wrapped in a mandarin flavoured eggless sponge.

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Eggless Saffron Pistachio Cupcakes with Saffron Buttercream

Sweet dreams are made of these! Festive, simple and ever so delicious, these are literal cupcakes baked in demitasse cups. Perfect for anytime, especially now.

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Eggless Strawberry Fraisier Dessert Box

The one bowl, simple eggless sponge flavoured with the zest of orange pairs with luscious, red strawberries to create a certain kind of magic. The flavours come together really beautifully and each spoon of the dessert is refreshing good!

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Eggless Lime Curd Trifles

When life gives you limes {or lemons}, you just have to make these! Also, the eggless lime curd is just amazing!

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Eggless Strawberry Orange Tart Cake

A delicious burst of flavours and colours in a tart which is a cake OR a cake that looks like a tart! It's now officially the season I love most where luscious strawberries paint the bazaar red, and the best oranges are here too. I'm back to making my favourite bake, a cake in my new tart tin, and I'm loving it. The cake is as simple as can be. A one bowl, part wholegrain eggless sponge to which I added orange zest. I loved the natural orange hue the cake took on.

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Vegan Rose Coconut Pudding

A light, refreshing vegan jelly pudding perfect for spring and summer. With just 4 ingredients, this wobbly pudding is as simple as it is delicious!

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Eggless Strawberry Curd & Cream Trifles

When strawberries are in season, there's always room for dessert, especially desserts as fun as these!

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Strawberry Matcha Cheesecake Tart

A really quick, simple, delicious dessert where the name literally takes longer to say than the time it takes to put the tart together

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No Eggs, No Worries! 10 Best Eggless Cakes for V Day! I got you covered

No eggs, No Worries! 10 Best Eggless Cakes for V Day! I got you covered for a wide variety of eggless cakes that you can bake this Valentines Day. You can bake these anytime actually what with egg shortages being reported extensively. The more I experiment and bake without eggs, the more I am convinced that the lack of eggs cannot be a deterrent if you love baking like I do.

This Eggless Baked Ombre Chocolate Cheesecake was one of my favourite baked cheesecakes from over a year ago. You can find that video here on my Instagram feed at Passionate About Baking. You can find a truckload of recipes there and on my recipe handle @pabrecipes.

CNN calls it the Great New Zealand Egg Crisis. With eggs being very expensive and difficult to find currently, there’s never been a better time to try something new like I did during the pandemic! Yes indeed, I went completely eggless or rather egg free with my baking, and I’m LOVING IT! I’ve never looked back and it gives me great joy to share a few of my favourites for you to bake this Valentines Day.

The list of eggless desserts is endless … eggless frangipane tart, eggless sticky toffee coffee puddings, eggless pastries, eggless lava cakes, eggless baked tarts, eggless layer cakes, eggless baked cheesecakes, eggless zuccotto are all an example of adapting to eggless baking! I struggle to perfect a good eggless roulade or Swiss roll, so that’s something I will continue to try.

Just recently, I figured out how to bake really nice eggless lady fingers or eggless savioardi, hence the Eggless Strawberry Charlotte below. I hope you find what you’re looking for…Happy Valentines Day!

There’s a cake for everyone – chocolate, coffee, raspberry, blueberry, strawberry, saffron, mango, vanilla … hopefully you’ll find a fit for the one you love. There are also different kinds of cakes – bundt cake, charlotte cake, cavity cakes, tart cake, opera cake, layer cakes, a simple entremet as well.

So here goes, please bake something for someone you love ♥!

Eggless Coffee Chocolate ❤️ Cavity Cake

… how deep is your love! If there was cake to demonstrate how deep your love is, this might just be it, the most apt #VDay cake. A heart shaped eggless coffee cake with a heart cavity cut out that is flooded with indulgent dark chocolate will convey your love deeply! This Kahlua moistened cake is delicious, the coffee chocolate pairing my all time favourite.

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Eggless Saffron Persian Mawa Love Cake

… because the month of love can't go by without a Persian love cake! It's almost Spring in the subcontinent and everything is a riot of colours. With the roses in full bloom, this is one cake I love to make at this time of the year. Saffron and pistachio add delicious notes to the simple one bowl eggless sponge, and indulgent beautiful hues to the shrikhand buttercream. What's not to love in a cake which is simple and stunning!

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Eggless Chocolate Strawberry Tart Cake

I love everything about tarts. I got this new tart tin that I've been dying to use and I was so pleased to see how well the cake baked up in it, left the sides and base so easily and looked so pretty! This chocolate tart cake is inspired by a dark chocolate strawberry pudding from my cookbook and it turned out great!

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Eggless Raspberry Vanilla Cake

Delicate, calming and deeply indulgent, this is a special cake for now. The cake has gentle flavours and they all come together in a nice balance. An eggless sponge flavoured with fresh orange zest, Cointreau to moisten it {or a sugar syrup if you like}, a quick raspberry compote to bring in the pink, then a vanilla bean layer… Magic in every bite!

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Eggless Strawberry Charlotte Cake … with homemade eggless lady fingers

Lady fingers are delightful little sponge cakes that are best known to be the base of a tiramisu. They have immense possibilities and this charlotte cake is one of them. That I managed to make it eggless makes me quite happy! Light buttery addictive eggless lady fingers build up the sides, a spiral baked of the same dough make the base. The filling is a silky smooth cream in two flavours, strawberry and vanilla bean, separated by a layer of fresh strawberries. It's a special cake, quite irresistible.

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Eggless Blueberry Layered Cake

Layered cakes are really fun and always special. This one might look like a bit of work, but trust me, it's as simple as simple can be. A quick one bowl fuss free 'fail proof' batter that is part wholegrain and really moist and flavourful, a 2 ingredient buttercream that is no fail again and has an optional spoon of ghee, then a fruit filling.

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Eggless Opera Cake

Indulgent layers of coffee and chocolate make this very special cake. This is my vegetarian take on the classic French Opera cake, a 6 layer cake that needs little introduction. Eggless almond sponges, coffee syrup, a potent coffee buttercream and chocolate ganache make up 6 layers that are covered in a shiny, simple chocolate glaze. The cake is traditionally finished with Opera written across the top, possibly the part I enjoyed most.

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Eggless Strawberry Love Cake

This is a cavity cake filled with everything that screams love – the most perfect strawberries, luscious dark chocolate cream, then an indulgent vanilla bean cream, all wrapped in a mandarin flavoured eggless sponge.

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Eggless Baked Cream Bundt Cake

A cake as delicious as it is interesting, that cream baked into the centre is divine! The idea to bake the cream within a cake is really interesting, especially for us on the subcontinent where whipping cream is hard to come by. How fun that you bake two layers of cake with the cream already within!

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Eggless Saffron Mango Tres Leches Cake

The season of love is incomplete without a mango tres leches! Everything is fresh about this cake. The light sponge, the beautifully addictive milk, the sweet mangoes and then the stabilized cream that holds the mangoes together.

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… and MORE EGGLESS DESSERTS

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

Delicious NYE Eggless Dessert Recipes To Wrap Up 2022! #HNY

Delicious NYE Eggless Dessert Recipes. Can you even believe we’ve gone through another year? Adieu 2022, you went by in a heartbeat. I baked a ton through the year, went completely egg free and did a load of no bake desserts too. Here are a handful of recipes you can try and recreate for NYE.

You can find several of my recipes on Instagram on my main feed @passionateaboutbaking and most of them on my recipe feed on @pabrecipes. It’s a platform I enjoy sharing on and the Top Nine tells me that the shares were well received!

Biscoff Banoffee Dessert Box

Raspberry Vanilla Bean Cake

Brownie Salted Caramel Trifle

Pistachio Saffron Cupcakes

4 ingredient Eggless Brownies

Eggless Gingerbread Nut Cake

Nama Chocolate Tart

Layered Biscoff Dessert Box

Carrot Orange Walnut Cake

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Biscoff Banoffee Box

This is love at first bite. It's such fun when a handful of ingredients come together so deliciously. We love a good banoffee at home, and this Biscoff twist to the banoffee was everything good. It's really easy to make as well.

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Eggless Raspberry Vanilla Bean Cake

Delicate, calming and deeply indulgent, it's one of the prettiest cakes ever. Most indulgent too!

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Eggless Caramel Brownies Trifles

… Cocoa brownies smothered in an indulgent vanilla cream and topped with salted caramel – on repeat!

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Eggless Saffron Pistachio Cupcakes with Saffron Buttercream

Makes 4-6 cupcakes

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Fudgy Eggless Chocolate Brownies

6 ingredient, indulgent, one bowl, festive and so special! Small batch brownies are always fun and these are no exception. They come together in minutes and each bite is deep, delicious, fudgy and satisfying. Make sure you use good quality ingredients to enjoy these

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Eggless Gingerbread Nut Cake.

.. Best Christmas flavours in a dessert that warms you up this holiday season

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Nama Chocolate Tart

The name says it all! An addictive good tart with a filling of the much loved Nama chocolate.

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Lotus Biscoff Dessert Box

Lotus Biscoff Dessert Box … Refreshing, delicious and addictive, a quick, simple eggless dessert where each layer calls your name! For those who know of Lotus Biscoff, it's not hard to imagine how good this must taste. Layers of pure joy!

Makes two 4" dessert boxes

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Chocolate Orange Biscuit Cake

Take a look at the simplest biscuit cake you'll ever make! It's a version of a recipe an aunt used to make years ago, back when cocoa powder was the only way to a chocolate cake.

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Eggless Carrot Orange Walnut Tea Cake

Simple, satisfying and bursting with flavour, this is one you'll make on repeat!

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Eggless Chocolate & Salted Caramel Poke Trifle

… A poke cake is most fun to make and quite honestly, it's deliciousness saturated. I took my eggless poke cake a step further and made a trifle with it!

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Eggless Tiramisu Chocolate Tart

Simple pantry ingredients make this delicious tiramisu inspired tart with classic flavours of coffee, Kahlua and mascarpone.

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You can find more EGGLESS recipes here!
Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

Simply Delicious Eggless Pistachio Cranberry Christmas Cake

Eggless Pistachio Cranberry Christmas Cake … so simple to make and simply delicious, this is a festive bake that reminds you of the good old school bakery cakes. Buttery, rich and ever so satisfying, it’s one I have baked several times this holiday season. This makes a great gift too!

With things being quite busy on the home front, I’m struggling to share Christmas recipes on the blog and I guess we still have a few days left, so here we go! Nothing screams the colours of Christmas better than bright green pistachios and jewel like deep red dried cranberries, both of which I’ve used a load over these holidays.

I’ve collaborated with United States Department of Agriculture to create and share recipes using their wonderful produce – pistachios, almonds, walnuts, pecans, cranberries, even frozen blueberries. You can find some of the recipes here on reels on my Instagram feed, while others should show up here soon. Do follow me on Instagram because most of my recipes assembly videos show up there on my handle @passionateaboutbaking with recipes on my recipe handle @pabrecipes

The Eggless Pistachio Cranberry Christmas Cake is reminiscent of the old style bakery cakes that we devoured as kids, memories coming alive with every bite. The crumb is rich and light, the sweetness just perfect and the bite of pistachios and cranberries so satisfying. I like to blanch and peel the pistachios to get the beautiful green and though it’s a slightly tedious job, the results are so bright and cheerful. I save the peels for smoothies or soup so nothing goes waste!

Oh and I forgot to say that I flavoured the cake with fresh orange zest and it made ALL the difference. The colour was a warm orange and the flavours paired so well with the nuts and berries. I love that simple, natural everyday flavours can add so much oomph to a simple bake, lift it up so effortlessly, so deliciously. The chocolate chips are optional of course but we loved them in there because chocolate ♥!

Do tag me on Instagram at passionateaboutbaking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it! Thank you for stopping by!

Eggless Pistachio Cranberry Christmas Cake

… so simple to make and simply delicious, this is a festive bake that reminds you of the good old school bakery cakes. Buttery, rich and ever so satisfying, it's one I have baked several times this holiday season.

Makes one 4.5" x 7.9" loaf

Course Breakfast, Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American, British

Keyword baking, cake, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, fruit, one bowl, simple, vegetarian

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 45

6

Servings 8 people

Ingredients

85 g clarified butter / ghee melted, warm
110 g yogurt whisked
40 g milk warm
Zest of 1 orange
75 g castor sugar
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
Pinch of salt
100 g all purpose flour maida
25 g almond meal/ground almonds
50 g American pistachio peeled
50 g American cranberries chopped roughly
50 g dark chocolate chips

Topping

American pistachios American cranberries, chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 170C
Lightly grease and line a loaf pan with parchment paper with a slight overhang to help take out the baked loaf.
In a large bowl whisk together the ghee, yogurt, milk, sugar, orange zest, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Whisk in the flour, pistachios, cranberries and chocolate chips.
Transfer batter to loaf pan and even out.
Top with pistachios, cranberries and chocolate chips
Bake for approximately 45 minutes/until the top is light golden brown and the tester comes out clean. Tent the top with a sheet of foil after 20-25 minutes to prevent the top from over browning.
Cool completely, then demold.
The loaf is delicious warm as well but a little crumbly.

Note : The batter also makes 6 cupcakes. Bake at 180C/20minutes

Angoori Kesari Gulab Jamuns … quick, fuss free festive desserts #HappyDiwali

Angoori Kesari Gulab Jamuns … most delicious, surprisingly easy and so fuss free, you’ll wonder why you never made these before! I’ve been making them for years and then I fell off my perch for a bit. The other day, clearing my pantry, I fund a bag of milk powder and before I knew it, we had the most delicious gulab jamuns.

What are gulab jamuns you might wonder? Some passionately call them Indian’s national dessert and they are truly loved across the subcontinent. They are a sweetmeat or mithai popular across the region and are usually made of khoya {milk solids}, plain flour and a leavening agent such as baking powder. They are basically deep fried dough balls that are dunked after frying into a warm rose flavoured sugar syrup and gently swell up absorbing the syrup and becoming soft and delicious. Plump too!

That’s the gist and there are several recipes to get there. Different regions have their own recipes and often ingredients differ as well. I make them with khoya/mawa {a local reduction of milk to give milk solids} as I did in the eggless baked Gulab Jamun Cheesecake, and with milk powder like my mother used to years ago.

Both work pretty well but I like the milk powder recipe better because the ingredients are easier to source and more predictable. The khoya/mawa can sometimes differ across brands and where you buy it from, is sensitive to temperature too.

I like to make the smaller gulab jamuns like these, called angoori gulab jamuns, angoor referring to grapes. These are much smaller than the normal gulab jamuns that you get at mithai shops and somehow feel a little more guilt free!

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Angoori Kesari Gulab Jamuns

Makes 18-20 small gulab jamuns

Course Dessert

Cuisine Indian

Keyword dessert, eggless, homemade, Indian dessert cake, no bake, saffron, simple, vegetarian

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 15

4

Total Time 4 25

Servings 8

Ingredients

Saffron sugar syrup

280 g sugar
2 cups water
5 green cardamom choti elaichi
Saffron strands
1/2 lime juice of

Dough balls

100 g milk powder
60 g plain flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
25 g clarified butter/ghee
50-55 g saffron infused milk infused overnight

Oil/ghee for deep frying

Instructions

Saffron sugar syrup

Make the syrup first and keep it warm.
Add the sugar, water, green cardamom, saffron strands and rose essence to a sauce pan and simmer gently until you get a sticky syrup but NOT a thick one string syrup. If the syrup feels sticky between your finger tips, it’s good to go. If the syrup gets too thick, the dough balls won’t be able to absorb it.
Keep the syrup warm while you make the dough.

Dough balls

Place the milk powder, plain flour, baking powder, ghee and 45g of the saffron infused milk in the jar of a hand blender. Process until you get a soft dough which comes together smoothly and pulls away from the sides. Add more saffron milk, a tsp at a time, if you need more to get a soft smooth dough.
You can even mix this together an a biwl, gradually adding the saafron infused milk and knead it, but the hand blender does a quicker, neater job.
Divide the dough into 18-20 grape sized small portions, bringing the dough together tightly by closing your hand into a tight fist, then rolling them while applying pressure to get neat, smooth little dough balls. They might look tiny, but they almost double in size after soaking in the syrup.
Heat the oil/ghee over a low medium flame until it’s hot but not smoking.
To check the consistency of the dough and heat of the oil, it's best to put one dough ball into the oil gently and deep fry it to check if the ball holds and doesn't split etc.
Once that is done, then fry the dough balls in one batch or two, depending on the size of the wok and quanitiy of oil.
Fry over a low medium flame, turning the balls with a slotted spoon often to get an even golden brown colour.
Once done, remove the balls to a deep dish and immediately pour over the warm saffron sugar syrup. Cover and leave the balls to absorb the syrup. It should take 3-4 hours.
Serve warm, at room temperature or chilled.
Note: You can add 1/4 to 1/2 tsp of rose essence to the dough if you like.

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