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Indians' love for desi sweet treats is indescribable. Mithais like gulab jamun, laddoo, rasgulla, barfi, peda, jalebi, and rasmalai hold a special place on every celebratory occasion. Be it good news for the family or a big party, no event is complete without feeding each other sweets.
Soan papdi is another well-known mithai in India. Made from gram flour, all-purpose flour, sugar, milk, and ghee, it is also flavoured with green cardamom and almonds. Soan papdi has a flaky texture and lip-smacking sweet taste that make it perfect for every occasion. Unlike gulab jamun or rasmalai, it is not syrupy, making soan papdi an ideal dessert for packing in the tiffin box and carrying it on your travels.
This mithai is also a common pick to gift during festivals like Diwali and Holi. Soan papdi’s are available in almost every sweet shop in the country but when it comes to making this mithai in your kitchen, nobody wants to try. This is because of the complicated cooking process, which makes everyone feel the result will not be as expected. But if you really want to make soan papdi, here is a viral YouTube video that gives a simple recipe to make it at home. Watch the full video here.
It was uploaded on YouTube by Saroj Sharma, who frequently posts simple and easy recipes to make Indian dishes. The soan papdi video has more than 12 million views and 95k likes. People in the comment section appreciated the recipe and approved it as an easy method of making soan papdi at home.
The main ingredients Saroj uses for the dish are all-purpose flour, gram flour, sugar, almonds, cashew nuts, ghee, lemon, and a pinch of salt. The recipe starts by roasting maida and besan in ghee on a low flame. Once done, Saroj lets it cool completely. Meanwhile, she makes sugar syrup for the soan papdi by cooking water and sugar along with half a lemon and a pinch of salt.
After the syrup is prepared, Saroj stirs it continuously until it changes colour to golden yellow. The next step is to make a dough from the syrup by mashing it vigorously with your hands. She advises rubbing some ghee in the palms before touching the sugar syrup to avoid sticking.
After it becomes completely white, she combines it well with the flour mixture and shapes it into a cube. For the final step, Saroj, let's allow it to sit for a few hours and the soan papdi is ready to cut into squares and serve. Wasn’t that easy? Now it's your turn to try the recipe. Do tell us how it was.
