Jalebi Recipe


jalebi

Jalebi is a Gujarati recipe which is eaten with fafda on Dashera festival. It tastes awesome when eaten hot. You can also dunk this in milk and have for breakfast.

Prep time: 12 hours
Cook time: 30 minutes
Total time:12 hours 30 minutes
Yield: 15 Pieces


Ingredients:

  • Refined flour 300 gms.
  • Green cardamom powder ½ tsp.
  • Curd (yogurt) optional
  • Sugar 500 gms.
  • Color (optional) a few drops
  • Soda bi-carb 1 tsp.
  • Ghee for deep frying

Method:

1. Mix flour, soda and Yogurt. Add some water and make a batter.
2. Leave it overnight to ferment.
3. Mix it, add a little water if required and make it into a pouring consistency.
4. Prepare sugar syrup with equal quantity of sugar and water. Add green
cardamom powder and cook it for 20-25 minutes.
5. Heat Ghee in a Kadhai. Pour batter into a jalebi cloth and then pour it
into medium hot Ghee giving jalebi shapes.
6. Cook it from both sides. Remove and keep it in sugar syrup for at least 5
minutes before serving.

Tip: For jalebi cloth, take some stiff cloth and make a 3 mm hole in the center.