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Gunder pak recipe | how to make gond pak | Gujarati gunder pak

Author Nehas Cook Book
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Course Indian sweets
Cuisine Indian
Servings 14 slices

Ingredients
 

  • 50 g or ¼ cup Gond
  • 75 g or ½ cup ghee
  • 125 g or ½ cup sugar
  • 125 g or 1 cup mava
  • 125 g or 2.5 cup dry coconut
  • 2 tbsp Chopped cashews
  • 2 tbsp Chopped almonds
  • 1 tsp Cardamom powder
  • ½ tsp Nutmeg powder
  • 1 tsp Dry ginger powder
  • ¼ cup water

Instructions

  • In a heavy bottom pan, add dry coconut and dry roast it on low flame.
  • Now heat ghee and fry gond in batches.
  • Crush the gond using your bowl or with your hand.
  • Roast cashews and almonds in ghee and add to mixing bowl.
  • Now, in the same pan add mava and roast it till the ghee separates from its sides. Then add mava into the mixing bowl.
  • Mix the entire ingredient into a mixing bowl.
  • Now in a pan, add sugar and water. Mix well and cook sugar syrup till it reaches 1 string consistency.
  • Switch off the gas, add cardamom powder, nutmeg powder and dry ginger powder. Mix well.
  • Add gond pak mixture into the sugar syrup and mix well.
  • Grease the plate with little oil, and add gond pak mixture.
  • Allow mixture to set for 1 hour.
  • Cut into pieces and enjoy gond pak for a month when stored in an airtight container.

Notes

  • fry gond on low-medium flame till it completely puffs up.
  • Switch off the gas, when the sugar syrup reaches 1-string consistency.
  • Add all powder into hot sugar syrup for its aromatic flavor.