Gulab Jamun Recipe

Ingredients’

Milk powder – 1 cup (150 gm)

All purpose flour /maida – 2 tbl.sp

Semolina/rava – 2 tsp

Cream – 1 tbl.sp

Baking powder – 1 tbl.sp

Milk to sprinkle

For making sugar syrup

Sugar – 1 cup

Water – 1 cup

Cardamom powder – ½ tsp

Rose water – ½ tsp

Method

Make a sugar syrup by boiling all the ingredients in a pan. The syrup should be of one thread consistency.

For making Gulab Jamun, first combine together milk powder, all purpose flour, semolina and baking soda. Add cream and rub till it forms like bread crumbs. Sprinkle little milk on it and make a dough of it. There is no need to knead the dough for too long to make it soft. Just bring all the ingredients together. The texture of the dough should be such that it should easily break. Leave this aside for 5 minutes.  Now make small balls from it and deep fry in oil.

Fry on low flame so that it is very well cooked from inside. Fry this till golden brown in color and dip in sugar syrup. Leave it for an hour before you serve this.

Gulab Jamun with Khoya

Ingredients

Khoya/mava – 250 gm

Maida/refined flour –  1 cup

Baking soda – ¼ tsp

Milk – 1 tbl.sp

For making sugar syrup

Sugar – 1 cup

Water – 1 cup

Cardamom powder – ¼ tsp

Method

Sieve together maida, and baking soda and then slowly add khoya to it. Add few drops of milk for mixing.

Knead it to get smooth dough. When you make balls, the surface should be smooth, there should be no cracks otherwise it will break while frying.

Make a sugar syrup by adding equal quantity of water and sugar and add cardamom powder to it and leave it to boil.

Remove from fire when the sugar syrup is ready.

Make small round balls of the dough and deep fry in oil in medium flame till golden brown in color.

Remove and immediately put in warm and not hot sugar syrup so that it absorbs the syrups quickly.

Cool and serve.