Bangladeshi Palmyra/ ice apple/ Palm Fruit Malpua recipe

Palmyra fruit also called Toddy palm in the Konkan region and “Taal ” in Bangladesh and Ice apple in English is a versatile fruit.
This tree is a native of bengal and almost all the parts of the plant are put to use. The sap of the tree is used to make toddy which is an alcoholic beverage popular in the Konkan coast of India.
Each fruit has 3 seed sockets which contains a jelly like seed when raw.This jelly like pulp is consumed as a fruit or as a drink in my country Bangladesh.
As the fruit ripen in the month of July ,August ,the seed hardens and is covered with a juicy orange fibrous pulp .
In Bangladesh, during monsoon thick juice is extracted from the pulp and sweet dishes are prepared from it.
The pulp is mixed with rice flour and fritters and sometimes thickened with milk to form kheer.
Today, I will show you how to prepare "Taler Malpua" (in bengali language) which is a traditional Bangladeshi Sweet Dish. Let's cook. Take Love from Bangladesh. 😊

                                                          

Ingredients

1. For Malpua:
2. 1 cup pulp of Palmyra
3. 1 cup semolina
4. 2 cup refined flour
5. 1 cup grated coconut
6. 1 tbsp fennel seeds
7. 1 cup milk

8. For sugar Syrup :
9. 2 cup sugar
10. Oil for frying

Steps

1. For the sugar syrup boil water and sugar together till it forms a thick syrup. Stop the flame, When touched with two fingers the syrup should form a single string. Keep them aside.

2. Now, Mix all the ingredients together and form a uniform batter.if the batter is too thick, add milk to loosen the batter.

3. Take a frypan put some oil and heat it on stove. Add a spoon of batter on the hot oil and fry to make crisp malpuas. After fried all Malpuas, stop the flame.

4. Now deep all the Malpuas into sugar Syrup for 3-4 hours. Then bring them out if it.

5. Bangladeshi traditional Palm Malpuas are ready to serve. Enjoy 😊.