Musara

               Musara is a malabar sweet / snack prepared using plain flour, milk and sugar. I got the recipe from the book Malabar Cookery by Thesnim Azeez...

Ingredients:

1/2 cup plain flour / maida

2 cup milk

6 tbsp sugar

a pinch of cardamom powder

1 small shallot, sliced

1 tbsp raisins

1 tbsp cashew nuts

1 tbsp ghee

Preparation:

1. In a bowl, add plain flour and milk and mix well without any lumps. Keep it aside.
2. Heat ghee in a pan and fry cashew nuts and raisins and keep it aside.
3. In the same pan, add sliced shallot and saute well.
4. Add flour-milk mixture, sugar and cardamom powder to this, mix well and cook till it thickens stirring continuously on medium flame. Then add 1 tsp ghee and mix well. 
5. Switch off the flame and transfer it to a greased plate/ pan and flatten smoothly. Add fried cashew nuts and raisins on top.
6. Allow to cool completely and then cut into desired size pieces and serve...