its a very famous sweet preparation all over India and usualy western world you can find it in any Indian restauarant world over. You can find this dish or rice pudding "kheer" in the restaurants as famous sweet preparation.
There are various ways to prepare it and taste differenciates in all those forms.
The basic definiation would be milk balls deep friend and diped in sugar syrup. resembling haitian rum balls. it also resembles very much closely to greek sweet loukoumas.
This is the best sweet dish i enjoyed my most of life not only eating but also preparing. the memories goes back to my childhood when i use to help my grandma to make this so i can eat the dough.
PREPARATION:
It is very simple preparation either use the dried form of condensed milk called as khoya or mava in India or simply milk powder. make a soft and smooth dough for this recipe using milk powder and milk, at some places refined flour is also used to give a binding to the dough but i prefer pure form of it. while making balls try to avoid cracks on the balls or else they may crack while frying or wont cook proper.
The frying medium for this is usually clarified butter as it gives a good semolina type consistency to the preparation refined vegetable oil can be substituted. Deep fry these balls into clarified butter and then deep it into sugar syrup for atleast 2 hours. Make a simple sugar syrup using equal amount of sugar and water. you can flavour sugar syrup using aither cardamom or rose petals.
This preparation is eaten usually after dinner on some special occasion.
recipe:
milk powder :2 1/2 cup
milk :1 cup
baking soda : 1/2 tsp
sugar syrup
sugar : 2 cup
water : 2 cup
rose water : 2 tsp
or cardamom :1 tsp
clarified butter for frying : 4 cups
make a smooth dough using milk powder and milk add baking powder until it becomes smooth as bread dough.
cover with damp cloth keep aside.
mix sugar and water and set to boil flavour it with rosewater or cardamom.
heat the clarified butter on medium heat.
make the dough balls averagely walnut size. deep fry them until golden brown and deep it in the warm sugar syrup for atleast 2 hours.
serve 2 per portion with cardamom icecream or vanilla ice cream