Ingredients

• 250 g - ghee
• 50 g - sugar
• 250 g - gram flour (besan)
• 1 tsp - cardamom powder
• ¼ tsp - essence of saffron
• 25 g - sliced pistachios and almonds
• a few drops - yellow colour
• silver or golden foil

How to Make Saffron flavored Mysore Pak

• Put one cup water in sugar and prepare a syrup of one thread consistency.
• Fry gram flour in 100 gms. ghee to a rich golden colour.
• Add the nuts, sugar syrup, cardamoms and a few drops of yellow colouring and mix well.
• Heat remaining ghee to smoking point and add it gradually into the mixture, stirring all the time.
• When the mixture is well blended and the ghee begins to appear on the surface, mix in the essence, remove from fire and put in a greased thali.
• Cover with foil and cut into squares while still warm. Keep aside to set.