🇮🇳 Indian Vegetarian

Pantua

Name: Pantua
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1/4 cup All-Purpose Flour; 1.5 cups, for syrup Sugar; for deep frying Peanut Oil; 4, powdered Green Cardamom; 1 cup, crumbled Khoa (Mawa)

🇮🇳 Indian

Bengal's fried answer to the rasgulla — khoya-and-flour spheres deep fried till dark, drowned in cardamom syrup till they swell and glisten. Pantua is the proud ancestor of the gulab jamun.

Prep 30 min Cook 25 min Serves 8 Medium

Ingredients

All-Purpose Flour1/4 cup
Sugar1.5 cups, for syrup
Peanut Oilfor deep frying
Green Cardamom4, powdered
Khoa (Mawa)1 cup, crumbled

Instructions

1
Mash khoya with flour to a smooth, crack-free dough.
2
Roll tight smooth balls — no cracks allowed.
3
Fry on medium till mahogany dark all over.
4
Drop into warm cardamom syrup.
5
Soak 2 hours until each ball swells heavy with syrup.

Chef's tip

Cracked balls burst in the oil — knead till the dough is silk, then roll twice-smooth.

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