Vegetarian Treasury ( Part – 10) : Janmashtami Special Mewa Pag /Dry Fruits Paag/Panchmewa Paag
Recipe type: Sweets
Cuisine: Indian
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 40 mins
Total time: 50 mins
Ingredients
Lotus seeds – 1 cup (20 gms)
Dry coconut – 1 cup ( 60 gms ) (grated)
Muskmelon seeds – 1 cup (70 gms)
Sugar – 2 cups (500 gms)
Ghee – ¾ cup ( 150 gms)
Almonds – ½ cup ( 40 gms)
Edible gum – ⅓ cup (30 gms)
Poppy seeds – ¼ cup ( 30 gms)
White pepper – 1 tsp
Green cardamom – 10 to 12 (powder)
Instructions
Add ¾ cup ghee to the wok and heat it. When the oil is medium hot, put the lotus seeds to fry. Stir until golden brown for 4 minutes. Take them out in a plate by holding the ladle at the edge of the wok.
Let the ghee cool a bit then take ⅓ cup edible gum. Put it to fry. Turn on the flame, keep the flame low. Put it to fry in two parts. Stir the edible gum and roast it. Once it puffs up, take it out and reduce the flame. Take it out and reduce flame. Put the leftover
edible gum to fry and prepare likewise. It takes 6 minutes to roast edible gum at once.
Take ½ cup almonds, add it to ghee and fry until golden brown and puffed. Reduce the flame take them out.
When the Flame is low and ghee is less hot. Take 1 cup musk melon seeds and put to fry. Put the flame to medium. Fry by continuously stirring them. The seeds crackle and puff up. When slightly brown add desiccated coconut to it.
Add ¼ cup poppy seeds. Mix all ingredients well. Roast while stirring for 2 to 3 minutes. Stir it keep the flame low medium. We stirred it for 3 minutes. Take them out in a bowl.
To make sugar syrup, take 2 cups sugar in a vessel. Add 0.75 cup water to it. Turn on the flame. Cook the sugar syrup until sugar dissolves in water. Stir it at regular intervals.
Crush the whole dry fruits and prepare it. Crush the dry fruits in mortar and pestle. Crush the Almonds, lotus seeds and edible gum separately, grind them coarsely. Add all ingredients to the bowl of dry fruits.
Check if the sugar syrup is ready. When sugar syrup forms a single thread on drop then it is ready. Pour a drop in a bowl, Stick it between your fingers. If it forms a single thread then it is ready.
Grease the thali, Meanwhile drop all of the dry fruits in the sugar syrup. Add 1 tsp white pepper powder. Add powder made from 10 to 12 small cardamoms, Mix all ingredients well. Cook until it reaches the setting consistency. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Mix well. Turn off flame.
Put the Pag in thali to set. Spread it evenly, with a spoon. Put markings on the pag. You can keep pieces big or small as desired. Let it cool then separate the pieces. Lift it from the thali with the help of a knife. Slightly heat the base of the thali for 10 to 12 seconds.
Take out scrumptious Mix dry fruit Pag pieces. Relish these on any festive or special occasion. When it cool you can store it in a air tight container. You can eat it for a month.
