Jalebi

Name: Jalebi
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 5 people
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 2 cups all purpose flour; 5-6 tablespoon dry urad dal; 1/2 kg sugar; 1/2 tablespoon cardamom powder; as required Oil for deep frying; 2 cups water; 1 pinch saffron; 1 pinch salt; 3 cups water for sugar syrup; 1/2 tablespoon baking powder

Tania Deb @cook_9700174

Chennai

Wish you all a very Happy Holi. May all of your life’s be as colourful as Holi. Festival of colours of India are incomplete without special Sweets and savoury.
My Celebration starts with Jalebis. An instant recipe that can be easily made to celebrate any festival. So, what’s that we are waiting for, let’s start with the recipe.
#HoliSweets

Tania Deb @cook_9700174

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Ingredients

30 minutes

5 people

2 cupsall purpose flour
5-6 tablespoondry urad dal
1/2 kgsugar
1/2 tablespooncardamom powder
as requiredOil for deep frying
2 cupswater
1 pinchsaffron
1 pinchsalt
3 cupswater for sugar syrup
1/2 tablespoonbaking powder

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Steps

30 minutes

1

Make sugar syrup first. In a pan, put sugar and water and boil it till one string syrup is form. Add saffron and cardamom powder in it. Keep aside
2

In a mixer grinder,grind the urad dal till it’s smooth powder.
3

In a mixing bowl, sieve all purpose flour, urad dal powder, baking powder and a pinch of salt.
4

Now add 2 cups of water and mix well so that no lumps are form. The consistency should not be much thick or much watery. Add water if required.
5

Now, heat oil in a bottom flat pan in medium heat. Pour the batter in a piping bag and cut the end for a small hole. Start making rounds over the oil as jalebi size.
6

Fry them till golden in colour in medium low heat and take them out from oil and put directly in the sugar syrup. So that it soaks the sugar syrup. Take them out from the syrup after 2-3 minutes and serve