Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Gulab Jamun / Gulab Jamun With Khoya


Gulab Jamun made from khoya is super soft, spongy and melted in our mouth... Taste is much better than the instant mix.. This amazing and delicious dessert recipe prepared during all festival, parties, weddings and even in indian thalis.. Gulab jamun is usually served after the meals, some one served with a scoop of vanilla icecream... 


I made this recipe first time, you will need a khoya which is a evoporated milk is mixed with all purpose flour / maida to form a smooth  soft dough.. and they fried in hot oil in medium flame and soaked in sugar syrup, melted in mouth jamuns... This recipe is simple, very easy for the beginners and it doesn't has any tip or tricks... 



So I hope that you must try this recipe and let me know it's turn sout from you.. 


Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 20 mins
Makes - 10 to 12 nos
Recipe Cuisine - Indian
Recipe Category - Sweet

INGREDIENTS :

Khoya / Koya (unsweetened) - 1 cup
All purpose flour / Maida - 3 tbspn
Cooking Soda - 1/4 tspn
Oil - for frying

FOR SUGAR SYRUP :

Sugar - 1 1/2 cups 
Water - 1 1/2 cups
Yellow food colour - few drop (optional)
Cardamom powder / Elachi - a pinch

METHOD :

  • First crumble the khoya with your hands and measure it..
  • Take khoya in a mixing bowl, and add in maida and cooking soda and rub it with your hands..
  • Slowly add water (add carefully) to make a smooth soft dough..
  • Form smooth dough without any lumps, Keep aside for 5 mins, 
  • Meanwhile take a pan with sugar, water, cardamom powder and food colour..
  • Bring to boil for 6 to 7 mins in low flame.. keep aside..
  • Roll the jamun into equal small balls and heat the oil in a pan..
  • Now add the balls one by one carefully in hot oil..
  • Fry it low flame and keep rolling the jamuns with the ladle inside the oil..
  • So they cooked evenly, it will take few time to fry..
  • Fry they till they get golden dark brown in colour..
  • Drain them in tissue paper and immediately add to the hot sugar syrup..
  • Let them soaked them and serve..
  • Enjoy..


PICTORIAL :


Take all the ingredients for dough
In a mixing bowl add in khoya and maida
Add in cooking soda
Mix it well
Add in little water
Knead it well to form a smooth dough
In a pan add sugar
 Add some water
Add in cardamom powder and yellow food colour
Bring to boil for 6 mins
Now make a small balls out the dough
All are done
Heat a pan with oil
Add the prepared jamuns
Fry them in low flame 
Keep rolling the ladle in the oil
So they fry evenly
Fry till golden brown in colour and remove them to a tissue
Now pour the sugar syrup in  aserving bowl
Add fried jamuns
Soaked it, till they became soft and spongy
Serve 

Soft and spongy
Enjoy...

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Jalebi Sweet Recipe / Perfect Crispy Jalebis


Jalebi... Jalebi... I love love this sweet lot and is my favourite one... This sweet is to celebrate my happiest moment, that is my Facebook page reach 1000 likes... I never thought my little blog reach most of the people all over the world.. I really happy that I make so many's cooking easy and simple... So I prepare this sweet to celebrate this special moments...


This sweet turns out super crispy and moist, my hubby loved it so much and I was super excited to see this yummy jalebi... Because I never thought that, I made this delicious sweet in my kitchen.. Now come to the recipe, this jalebi are fried sweet that are dipped in sugar syrup and it is one of the most popular sweet dish in india... 


This is a traditional part of making jalebi using yogurt, must sit overnight and the batter is fermented and later the batter is poured in spiral shape in hot oil and the fried spiral are dipped in sugar syrup with little lemon juice and saffron... So we get a crispy, crunchy, juicy jalebis.... Diwali are incomplete without this delicious sweet.. 


Friends click out my all Diwali recipe and Diwali lunch ideas in my blog, through the link you can see all my recipes with stepwise pictures.. So I hope that this yummy crispy sweet is more useful for this diwali and let me know how it's turns out from you....

Preparation Time : 10 mins
Fermentation Time : over night or 12 hours
Cooking Time : 3 mins for a batch
Makes - 35 to 40 jalebis
Recipe Cuisine - Indian
Recipe Category - Sweet

INGREDIENTS :

FOR JALEBI BATTER :

All purpose flour / maida - 1 cup
Rice flour - 2 tbspn
Baking Soda - 1/4 tspn
Yogurt / Curd - 3/4 cup
Yellow food colour - a pinch
Saffron threads - few

FOR SUGAR SYRUP :

Sugar - 1 cup
Water - 1 cup
Saffron threads - few
Yellow food colour - few
Lemon juice - 1/2 tspn

METHOD :

PREPARING JALEBI BATTER :

  • In a mixing bowl add all the ingredients in " FOR JALEBI BATTER "except saffron..
  • Mix it well without any lumps, keep mixing the batter..
  • In circular motion upto 4 to 5 mins.. make it even and smooth..
  • Keep it warm place for 12 hours or overnight, I keep it for 15 hours..
  • You will see the small bubbles on the next day, on the top of the batter..
  • Stir the batter, it became thinner than the batter before frementation..
  • Now add safforn threads to the thinner batter and mix well.
  • Keepaside..


PREPARING SUGAR SYRUP :

  • Take 1 cup of suagr with 1 cup of water in a wide pan..
  • Allow to boil, add in saffron threads and little food colour and mix it well.
  • Cook the syrup in low medium flame..
  • When the sugar dissolve and it became one thread consistency..
  • Switch off the flame and add in 1/2 tspn of lemon juice and stir well.
  • Keep the sugar syrup on the burner itself..
  • So it is warm. when you add jalebis..


FRYING JALEBIS :

  • Heat a pan with oil and add in a pinch of batter to check the correct consistency..
  • Take the batter in ziplock bag and lock it..
  • Now make a small hole at the bottom of the bag..
  • Through that make rings with the batter on the hot oil..
  • (practice to get a perfect jalebi shape)
  • Fry them in low flame, when one side is fried flip it and cook on both sides..
  • Fry till the oil stop sizzling and remove out from the oil..
  • Add to the prepared sugar syrup for 30 sec..
  • And flip the jalebis and it will rest for another 30 mins..
  • Remove it carefully from the syrup..
  • Place them in a plate, prepare all the jalebis like that way..
  • Serve hot and enjoy...


PICTORIAL :


Take all your ingredients
Add in flour
Add in baking soda
Add in yogurt
A pinch of yellow colour
Mix it well without any lumps
Fermented this overnoght or 12 hours
The next day it puffs up
Mix it well atleast 5 mins
The batter is in cake batter consistency..
No need to add water
Add some crushed saffron
Mix it well, keep aside..
In a wide pan add sugar
Add in water
When it heated add in saffron
Mix it well
Give it a stir
When sugar dissolve
Add in food colour
The syrup should be in one thread consistency
Add in lemon juice and mix well
Now the sugar syrup is ready
Now take the batter in ziplock bag 
In corner of the bag make a small hole
Heat a pan with oil
Start from the centre moving outside make the jalebi carefully
I make 3 at a time, fry the jalebis both side till crispy in low flame
Now it's done, remove from the oil
Dipped in sugar syrup for 30 mins
Flip it over and again 30 mins
Place them in a plate
Serve hot
Looks yummy..
Enjoy..