Indian food

Malpua

Name: Malpua
Cuisine: Indian

A thick pancake fried in ghee and dropped into syrup, crisp at the rim and soaked at the centre. Fair food, festival food.

Where to try it

Pushkar's malpua is thick and bready rather than lacy, soaked in syrup and eaten with rabri: a fair-ground sweet in a town built around a fair.