Gulab jamun

Name: Gulab jamun
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 250 gm Sweet potato; 2 1/2 tbsp Milk powder; 1 tbsp Maida; 4 Crushed green cardamom; as per taste Sugar; 1 tbsp Ghee; as required Chopped pistachios; as required Refined oil

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Ingredients

1 hr

6 servings

250 gmSweet potato
2 1/2 tbspMilk powder
1 tbspMaida
4Crushed green cardamom
as per taste Sugar
1 tbspGhee
as required Chopped pistachios
as required Refined oil

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Steps

1 hr

1

Peel the sweet potatoes. Boil the potatoes till 80% of it & mash it.
2

Add milk powder & 2cardamom seeds. Start making the dough. Add maida as required to bind the dough. Don't add too much as that will harden the sweet. Add ghee & mix nicely. This will add flavour.
3

Rub little ghee in your hands. Start making desired balls out of the dough without any cracks. Put few chopped pistachios in the middle of each ball.
4

Heat adequate oil in the kadai. Put a ball into the oil. Don't stir immediately to avoid breakage of the sweet. After 4-5 mins give it stir and fry till the desired color on low to medium flame. Fry in batches.
5

Meanwhile make a sugar syrup with 1bowl sugar & 2bowls of water of same measurement. Make a thin syrup with few crushed cardamom seeds. Put off the flame.
6

Add the sweet balls immediately after frying in sugar syrup. Dip for 3-4 mins. Garnish with chopped pistachios on top.