Gulab Jamun
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 15
 
Ingredients
  • For the sugar syrup:
  • Water – 3 cups
  • Sugar – 2.5 Cups
  • Cardamom powder – 2 tsp
  • Saffron – a pinch
  • Rose water – 1 tsp For the Gulab Jamuns:
  • Milk Powder – 1½ cup
  • All purpose flour – ½ cup
  • Oil/ Ghee – 1 tsp
  • Baking soda – a pinch
  • Salt – a pinch
  • Yogurt – 2 tbsp
Instructions
  1. To prepare the sugar syrup:
  2. Mix water, sugar, cardamom and saffron in a pan, heat it till you get a syrup consistency. There should not be any thread formation, as it might form crystals later. usually it takes around 8 – 10 mins for that consistency in medium flame.
  3. Add the rose water and keep it aside. To prepare the jamuns:
  4. Mix the milk powder, baking soda, salt, all purpose flour, oil/ghee, yogurt in a bowl. Mix and keep on adding little of the yogurt to get a soft sticky mixture. If the mixture is dry or crumble, add some yogurt. Keep it covered for ten minutes and keep aside.
  5. Make small smooth balls from the dough after ten minutes.
  6. Heat the oil and reduce the flame to low. Add the balls and keep fry them. Use a wooden ladle and without touching the jamuns, just rotate the oil.
  7. When they become nice and dark golden in color, remove it from oil (with no oil totally) and add them to the sugar syrup.
  8. Let them soak for atleast 2 hours.
Notes
1. please read my summary above for more tips
2. If you want , you can fry the jamuns in 50:50 Oil and ghee.
Recipe by Relish The Bite at https://www.relishthebite.com/gulab-jamun/