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Mishti Aloo’r Pantua recipe

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Mishti Aloo’r Pantua is traditional deep fried Bengali sweet made of sweet potato soaked in sugar syrup, much like Gulab Jamun.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Dessert, Sweets
Cuisine Bengali
Servings 30 pantua

Ingredients
  

FOR BOILING SWEET POTATO

  • 500 grams sweet potatoes
  • 5-7 cup water

FOR MAKING SUGAR SYRUP

  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup sugar (we have used shakkar. You can use normal refined sugar)
  • 3-4 green cardamoms
  • 1 tsp rose water
  • Few drops of lemon juice

FOR MAKING JAMUN

  • Boiled sweet potatoes
  • 1/4 cup almond flour (*or 1 tbsp all purpose flour)
  • 1/4 tsp baking powder (optional)
  • 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
  • Pinch of salt

FOR FRYING JAMUN (in Air Fryer)

  • 1-2 tbsp of oil (you need too much oil if deep frying)

Instructions
 

FOR BOILING SWEET POTATO

  • Take a wide and deep pan with water and place sweet potatoes in it.
  • Boil the sweet potatoes for 10-15 minutes or until they turn soft and tender.
  • Take Potatoes out of water and let them turn cool so that you can touch them comfortably. In the meantime let's make sugar syrup.

MAKING OF SUGAR SYRUP

  • Add water, sugar and cardamoms in a pan.
  • When the syrup begins to boil, let it boil just for 3 to 4 minutes. We don't need any thread consistency but just only a slightly thick syrup.
  • Switch off the heat and add rose water & lemon juice. Keep aside.

MAKING OF JAMUNS

  • Peel the sweet potatoes.
  • Place them in a wide vessel where you can conveniently handle them with free hand.
  • Start mashing the sweet potatoes and mash them in such a way that there remains no chunks of sweet potato.
  • Add almond flour, cardamom powder,salt and baking soda.
  • Bring the mixture together but do not knead it.
  • Cover the dough with a damp cloth and leave it to rest for 10 minutes.
  • Now start making smooth and crack free balls out of the dough. Big or small, choice is yours. We managed to make 30 balls out of entire dough.

FRYING OF BALLS

  • Grease the air fryer basket with oil. (In case you are deep frying them, heat oil to moderate warmth and then deep fry balls on low heat until deep brown.)
  • Arrange the balls in the basket of air fryer. Do not overcrowd the basket.
  • Apply oil all over the balls. You can also use desi ghee, if not vegan.
  • Switch on the air Fryer to 20-22 minutes @180°C.
  • But during the entire process, pause the air Fryer 3 to 4 times, shake the basket and apply some more oil on all the balls.
  • Air Fry till the balls turn golden brown from all the sides.
  • Dip them in sugar syrup which must be slightly warm at that time. Remember, syrup should neither be completely cool nor boiling hot.
  • Let balls remain soaked in syrup for 15 to 20 minutes.
  • Thereafter you can serve them. They taste so good if served chilled.

Notes

  1. Instead of air frying, you can adopt the traditional method of deep frying them.
  2. You may use oil or desi ghee for frying but do note, that fry balls on low heat and moderate hot oil. If oil is excessively hot or heat is too high, balls will turn black from outside immediately, but remain raw from within.
  3. As each air fryer is different, so your frying time may be differ to our's.
Keyword mishti aloo'r pantua, sweet potato gulab jamun