“Make merry with colours on holi
&
The rest of the days with the colour of love”

Holi ….  The most vibrant and colourful festival of India is synonym with vivacious colours and flavourful food. The holi celebration in my native state Bihar seems to be incomplete without pua and almost every household there is filled with the sweet aroma of the same. I don’t remember a single holi when  we have missed out this traditional festive sweet. And with this colourful festival around, I thought of sharing this recipe so that the holi celebration may be even more sweeter and memorable amidst colours of love. Although each household has its own recipe of this dish, I hope I do justice to my family recipe. Pua is made with batter of flour, banana along with milk and is soaked in sugar syrup and is served with rabari and nuts. Enjoy this indulgent recipe. Happy holi !!!

Ingredients

For rabari

Full cream milk 1 litre 

saffron strand 10 to 12 

For sugar syrup

Sugar 1 cup

Water ½ cup

Green cardamom powder a pinch

For the pua batter

Maida ½ cup

Ripe banana 1

Milk 1cup

Fennel seed ½ tsp

Dry fruits as needed

Oil for frying

Step 1:
Reduce the milk along with Kesar and make rabbari out of it

Step 2:
In a bowl mix together flour,milk,mashed banana,fennel seed, elaichi powder and chopped dry fruits.

Step 3:

Mix them all together and make a smooth Batter with pouring consistency. Cover it and let it rest for at least half an hour.

Step 4:

In the meantime boil sugar and water until sugar completely dissolve and the liquid takes the form of syrup. Also add the saffron into it.

Step 5:

Add oil in a flat surface thick bottom pan. Once the oil is medium hot, slowly pour the batter with the help of a kalchi.(scoop)

Step 6:

Let it fry on a medium heat turning it as required.

Step 7:

Once the edge is golden brown take it out in an absorbent paper and dip it into the sugar syrup.

Step 8:

Serve it hot with rabari and chopped dry fruits.

Tip:

• You can also add few Tsp of rawa to make the pua crispier.
• Here I have not added sugar in the rabbari since it makes the pua very sweet . But if you want you can definitely do so.