Malido
Ingredients
8 Cups Whole wheat flour
550 Gram Evaporated dry milk powder (or 250 grams of mavo aka khoya)
1 kg 350 g castor sugar
1 Cup Milk approx
7 Eggs beaten
1 Cup Pistachio
1 Cup Blanched almonds slivered
1/2 Cup Sultanas (Raisins)
2 tsp powdered cardamoms and nutmeg
Rosewater to taste
1 tsp Salt
1 1/4 Kg Ghee approx
Method:
Mix flour, salt, milk and 3-4 tbsp ghee and bind.
Knead and roll into rotlis.
Shallow fry in a little of the measured ghee.
Cool and break into fine pieces, like rough semolina.
Make thin syrup with sugar and a little water.
Cool and add eggs, mavo and broken pieces of fried rotlis.
Add remaining ghee and cook on a low fire, till ghee rises to top.
Remove this ghee if desired. I would!
Cool and add rosewater.
Sprinkle with nuts, sultanas and cardamom and nutmeg mixture, and cherries.
Serve malido warm and garnished with fried almonds/raisins/cashews. Some folks add cherries as well. Enjoy!
The Baj Malido is accompanied with some fruits like Bananas, Apples and Dates. Papdi is a unleavened bread that accompanies malido.
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Ketty Wadia
Jul 7, 2017, 7:25 pmYou have mentioned 16 tbs for 8 1/2 cups flour, 1 cup milk , pistachios and almonds each and 1/2 cup in your recipe for sultanas.
So how can 16 tbs be for 1cup 1/2 cup and 81/2 cups.?
Rita
Jul 7, 2017, 10:20 amThank Ketty. It was confusing to have the “tbs” measures in this Malido recipe. I have removed them. Usually when I make Malido, I go by eyesight and taste adding ingredients approx.
Another thing if anyone is making Malido for a prayer ceremony like Jashan, pls do not add any water or rosewater. Only milk.
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Mahrukh Mogrelia
Oct 10, 2018, 10:32 pmThere is no mavo in ingredients but while cooking you have mentioned, so is it evaporated milk you mean.
Rita
Oct 10, 2018, 10:28 amHi Mahrukh,
Thanks so much for pointing this out. I have added the mavo to the recipe.
Yes, I had not listed mavo but you can use 250 grams of fresh mavo instead of evaporated milk.
I prefer dry evaporated milk powder so the malido does not spoil so eeasily. Mavo tends to spoil if left outside for more than 5 hours.
Best wishes and do share a picture and note when you make it.
Rita
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