Halwai February 5, 2025

Ingredients:

• 1.5 cups – maida, sieved
• 3 tbsp – Sugar
• 2 tsp – baking powder
• 1 no Egg
• 1.25 cup – Milk
• 3 tbsp – peanuts, roasted, shelled & crushed
• 3 tbsp – sesame seeds, roasted
• 3 tbsp – butter, unsalted
• 2 tbsp – icing sugar, sieved
• 4 tsp – oil
• salt to taste

Method:

  1. Mix the maida, sugar, baking powder and salt together in a bowl and keep aside.
  2. Then beat separately the egg lightly.
  3. Make a hole in the centre of the flour and add the egg, milk and oil.
  4. Mix the above till a smooth batter is obtained.
  5. Keep this mixture aside for two hours.
  6. Heat a frying pan on a low flame.
  7. Apply butter on the heated pan.
  8. Then pour one ladle spoon of batter on the pan.
  9. Cover it and let it cook on a low flame for 3 minutes.
  10. Then apply some butter over the pancake.
  11. Top this with icing sugar, followed by a little sesame seeds and lastly followed by some peanuts.
  12. Cover again and cook till the pancake is done.
  13. Remove and fold the pancake in half.
  14. Dust the pancake with icing sugar. Prepare the remaining pancakes in the same way.
  15. Serve hot.