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If you are here, it means you have a sweet tooth and Mithai is one sweets that I can never have too much of. My mom’s Mithai are so soft and delicious that there is never enough to go around the family. People make and share this sweet for religious functions such as Diwali, Holi or even when you are just craving something sweet, which is usually me every other week 🙂

This divine sweet is worth discovering and it’s even easier to make than one would think. I’m one of those people that thought it was too complicated to even try making myself and it wasn’t until I filmed my mom making it that I thought how simple this really is. I will be posting these videos on my youtube as well so that you can always reference back to. If you are the type of person that prefers to print the recipe out and keep in a binder, feel free to do so by clicking below.

Let’s make some Mithai !

Guyana Mithai Recipe (The secret to making it soft)

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Resting time 30 minutes mins

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine Guyanese

Ingredients

  

• 3 cups Flour
• 2 tbsp Sugar
• 2 stick Butter
• 2 tbsp Ghee
• 1/2 Carnation milk

Instructions

 

• In a large bowl, add the flour, butter and ghee (We are adding ghee to our recipe as it makes it softer)
  
• Add your sugar and mix together
  
• Next add the carnation milk and continue kneading to form a stiff dough
  
• Rest dough for 1/2 hour.
• Roll with a rolling pin about 1/2 inch thick.
• Use a pizza cutter or knife to cut into diamond shapes.
  
• Heat oil in a pan on the stove.
  
• Fry until golden brown.
  
• Pour the paag (sugar coating) and stir to coat.
  

Notes

To make the paag for the Mithai. 

1. In a pot, add 1 cup of water and 3 cups of white sugar with a small cinamon stick
2. Boil until you reach a one string consistency. (See video if needed)

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