Gulab Jamun

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Gulab Jamun

Description

Cooking Time

Preparation Time :15 Min

Cook Time : 40 Min

Total Time : 55 Min

Ingredients

Serves : 8
  • 1 cups nova milk powder


  • 1/2 cups all-purpose flour


  • 1 tsp nova ghee


  • 1 tsp nova ghee/ oil for greasing


  • 1 tbsp nova milk


  • 1 tbsp nova dahi/ yogurt


  • 1 pinch baking soda


  • 2 cups nova ghee / oil for deep frying


  • 1 tsp chopped pistachios


  • 1 1/3 cups for sugar syrup:sugar


  • 1 1/2 cups water


  • 4 tsp green cardamom pods or powder


  • 2-3 drop drops of rose water

Directions

  • Mix together water, sugar and crushed cardamoms
  • Boil the syrup until it turns slightly sticky
  • Switch off before it goes to a 1 string consistency
  • If it reaches a 1 string consistency, then add 2 tbsp of water and mix
  • Add rose water and mix
  • Set aside
  • rose water is not mandatory
  • Mix together flour, milk powder and soda
  • Either sieve it or mix uniformly
  • Add ghee to this flour and mix well
  • Mix together yogurt and milk
  • Add 1 1/2 tbsp of this to the flour mixture
  • Begin to bring the flour together to make a dough
  • Knead the dough well
  • If the dough turns sticky
  • Grease your fingers and make a ball
  • The dough must not soggy
  • It must hold the shape well
  • Make 12 to 14 equal sized balls and heat up the pan with ghee or oil
  • Also check if the syrup is hot
  • If it is not hot, heat it up a bit
  • It must be hot and not very hot
  • When the ghee is just medium hot, add the balls
  • Make sure the oil is not very hot else the gulab jamuns will brown without cooking well
  • To check the right temp, you can drop a small piece of dough in the oil, it must rise slowly without changing its color
  • If it rises rapidly then you will need to cool the oil a bit before frying
  • Fry the balls until golden stirring uniformly
  • Add them to the hot syrup
  • Allow them to rest for 3 hours and serve
  • Garnish with pistachios