Do you know desserts can calm the mind?
And if you ask someone that how you celebrate anything, the immediate answer would be sweets or desserts.
Once we finish our meal, our brains sends signal to crave for something sweet. If dessert is favorite part of your meal, then this mouthwatering dish is for you.
Mawa Bati! it is very less heard by people. The name may sound unfamiliar expect the people who live in MP.
Madhya Pradesh, being a central state of India, incorporates the diversified cultures from all over India. MP is well known for its unique dishes. One of them are Mawa Bati which looks a bit like Gulab jamun but it tastes very different.
Mawa bati looks much similar to Gulab jamun but when you have a bite of it, you can easily differentiate it as it is fully loaded with dry fruits.
It is most famous sweet dish in Malwa region. This dish used to be must have thing in MP. It is a rich mithai made by stuffing a mava based dough with a rich mixture of nuts and mava.
It is named as mava bati because it is Bati of Meva (dough of mava).
Mava Bati recipe
As the name suggest, this mouth watering sweet dish is made up of meva. Made by stuffing a dough of meva and nuts and then they are deep fried in Ghee until this balls turn to golden brown.
Then these batis of meva are soaked in sugar syrup for a some time and then served. The crispness, balanced sweetness and rich texture of this dish made you fall in love with it.
Like Gulab jamun and jalebi this dish is delicious and we can serve at parties or any festival.
Other than meva, things that are required to make mawa bati are:-
Meva, Nuts, Sugar ,White flour,Ghee and water
So do try this mawa bati cuisine from MP for upcoming festival.
If you visit MP, then it is a must try sweet dish. You can find it on almost every sweets shop but the famous Mawa Bati Corners are
Sarafa Bazar , Indore
Arera Colony , Bhopal
Other famous dishes of MP
Major share of dishes in this state are vegetarian. Some top famous dishes are
Indori Poha, Jalebi, bhutte ka kis , malpuwa and Dal Bafla.