A mighty Sweet Start..

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To be honest, the fist time in years, a Fresher cooking something in the first practical session. As years goes , I see many with more confidence in them. The eagerness and the interest what they show towards culinary is really Good.

Its almost a week and today , Friday the 24th of June, I had a fresher who is very much confident in what he does, the dish he prepared was Mysore Pak, the more interesting part is that the recipe was take from Google and experimented at his home, and the result, Teaching his mother how to make mysore pak.

Mysore pak a sweet dish of Karnataka,is usually served as dessert. It is made of generous amounts of ghee ,sugar and chick pea (besan) flour.Some say Mysore Pak was first created in the kitchens of the Mysore Palace by a palace cook named Kakasura Madappa out of the above ingredients. The cook at the Mysore Palace kitchen simply made a concoction of besan, ghee and sugar. The sweet that was formed delighted every one so much that it became a "Royal Sweet". When asked its name, Madappa obviously didn't have its name, so he simply called it the ‘Mysore Pak’, a delicacy from the Mysore Palace. The king relished the sweet so much that he got Madappa to set up shop outside the palace grounds so that it could be made available to common people

I have seen many who knows to make good mysore pak, but in all , the measurement of ingredients in very, very precise. If something goes wrong , they just keep complaining the measurement , forgetting the real reason behind it. But today , I saw the fresher without a measuring cup when preparing the sweet, might be the reason, that the sweet what he prepared today turned out to be a sweet. As I said earlier, once you know the functions of Ingredients and its role in a particular dish, then everything else is simple. You literally create an understanding between you and the dish, That's what happened today , a mere understanding, between the fresher and the mysore pak. Once it is achieved , how-much ever time you prepare(closing your eyes, jumping up, lying down), the dish will never deceive you. And today, it created an awesome impression on me. and I believe that the impression last forever.

HAPPY SWEET!

MYSOREPAK
Take one cup of besan flour and gently roast in 1 tbsp of ghee. Make a sugar syrup with two cups of sugar and 1/4 cup of water. Add the besan flour little at a time,keep stirring. Add ghee(3 cups), little at a time , the mixture will absorbs it, when you see the fat coming out from the mixture , pour it in a greased plate and cut after chilling.