Mysore pak

Mysore pak
Dessert
Place of origin:
India
Region or state:
Karnataka
Main ingredient(s):
Ghee, sugar, gram flour.
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Mysore pak is a sweet dish of Karnataka, India, usually served as dessert. It originated in Karnataka. It is made of generous amounts of ghee (clarified butter), sugar and gram flour. Pak or Paka in Kannada means the sugar syrup or generally paka is also referred as a dish resembling to nalapaka and bhimapaka.

History

Legend is that Mysore pak was first created in the kitchens of the Mysore Palace by a palace cook named Kakasura Madappa out of the above ingredients. The cook at the Mysore Palace kitchen simply made a concoction of besan, ghee and sugar. The sweet that was formed delighted the royalties so much that it became a "Royal Sweet". When asked its name, Madappa obviously didn't have its name, so he simply called it the ‘Mysore pak’, a delicacy from the Mysore Palace. The king relished the sweet so much that he got Madappa to set up shop outside the palace grounds so that it could be made available to common people.^[1]

• Cuisine of Karnataka

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