FrenchRecipe Overview
Gulab jamun is a very sweet milk-based dessert, enjoyed in festivals and auspicious occasions like Diwali, Eid and Navratri. Homemade gulab jamun is usually made up of powdered milk, a pinch of all-purpose flour (optional), baking powder and clarified butter (ghee); kneaded to form a dough, moulded into balls, deep fried and dropped into simmering sugar syrup.
Recipe Ingredients
Servings: 8
(1 cup = 250 ML)
For Sugar Syrup:
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 3 cardamom powdered
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
For Gulab Jamun:
- 9 tbsp milk powder
- 3½ tbsp all-purpose flour / plain flour
- 1 tbsp semolina / sooji
- pinch of baking soda
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp ghee / clarified butter
- 4-5 tbsp milk warm
Instructions
Sugar Syrup Recipe:
- Firstly, in a wide pan take 1 cup of sugar
- Further, to that add 1 cup of water and get to a boil
- Then simmer for 4 minutes till the sugar syrup turns slightly sticky
- Now add cardamom powder.
- Also add lemon juice to stop crystallization process
- Cover and keep aside.
Gulab Jamun Recipe:
- Firstly in a large mixing bowl take milk powder
- Further, to that add maida and rava
- Then add pinch of baking soda
- Also add ghee, lemon juice and crumble well
- Slowly add milk little by little and knead well
- Knead to a smooth and soft dough
- Furthermore, make small balls greasing ghee to hands
- Make sure there are no cracks on balls. else there are chances for gulab jamun to break while frying.
- Heat the ghee on low flame and when the ghee is moderately hot, fry the jamuns
- Fry the balls on low flame stirring in between
- Fry till the balls turns golden brown
- Immediately, drop the hot jamuns into hot sugar syrup
- Cover the lid and rest for 2 hours. flame should be turned off
- Finally, the jamuns have doubled in size
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Credits
Source: Hebbar's Kitchen
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