Paal Cake / Fried Milk cake
Kerala snacks are loved by most of the malayalis and even popular among present generation also. Some authentic malabar snacks or kerala snacks gives a nostalgic taste like pazham pori, neyyvada, unnakaya, unniappam, chattipathiri, neyyappam, paal cake, kalthappam etc. Recently I have shared a detailed recipe and video showing how to make neyyvada at home. This time am with yet another kerala Teastall snack or sweet recipe. Paal Cake is a very popular teastall sweet or snack and it's taste resembles almost that of neyvada. For me, paal cake is a sweet accompaniment to evening tea especially when it is raining outside. This sweet or snack gives a nostalgic feel. Those rainy days with gloomy skies and me with a cup of black tea without sugar accompanied with this paal cake. It is surprisingly lesser known even in other districts of kerala. Really it's a mouthwatering sweet for me. Though this cake is named as paal cake which means milk cake, it is a sweet without milk. This snack has a crispy crust with soft juicy inside.
INGREDIENTS
All purpose flour / maida- 2 cups (1 cup = 250 ml)
Butter - 1 tbsp, softened
Ghee - quarter a cup, softened
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - a pinch, do not add more
Yogurt - 3 tbsp, thick and less sour
Sugar - 2 tbsp, do not add more
Egg white - of one egg
Vegetable oil or sunflower oil - for deep frying
FOR SUGAR SYRUP
Sugar - 2 cups
Water - 1 cup
Lemon juice - 1 tsp
Cardamom - 2 nos
PREPARATION
please watch the video below
- In a large bowl, sieve together All-purpose flour, baking powder, and baking soda. Sieving the flour mixture is very important. (both baking powder and baking soda is must in this recipe.)
- Mix this flour mixture well with a spoon and then add softened butter. Combine well with your fingers.
- To this, add the melted ghee little by little. The ghee must be mixed well with the flour. Combine well to form a bread crumbs texture.
- For kneading this flour mixture to a soft diugh, combine together egg white, curd, and sugar in another bowl.. Add this egg mixture little by little to the flour mixture and knead well to form a soft dough. You must knead the dough very well. Keep this dough aside covered for half an hour.
- Meanwhile let's make the sugar syrup. Boil sugar, water and cardamom in a pan until it forms one string consistency. Then add lemon juice. Mix well and off the flame.
- Now the dough for paal cake will be ready. DD not knead the dough at this stage, but roll and flatten the dough using a rolling pin to form a rectangular shape with minimum thickness.
- Then cut it into desired shapes or same like pal cake.
- Heat a pan with oil for deep frying. Once hot, drop the prepared cakes to the oil and then make the flame to medium low. You must cook the cakes over a medium flame only else results in an uncooked paal cakes.
- Fry until both sides turn golden.
- When done, tranafer it to a plate and immediately put them in warm sugar syrup for 3 to 5 minutes or until the next batch is ready. (you can heat the sugar syrup for a minute if it is cooled).
- Do not keep the cakes in syrup fir more time.
- After 3 to 5 minutes, transfer it to the plate and allow it to cool down before serving for best result. You can store them in the refrigerator for 2-3 days.
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