Sunday, July 20, 2008

Jalebi

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


Mix flour, soda and Yogurt. Add some water and make a batter. Leave it overnight to ferment. Mix it, add a little water if required and make it into a pouring consistency. Prepare sugar syrup with equal quantity of sugar and water. Add green cardamom powder and cook it for 20-25 minutes.


Heat Ghee in a Kadhai. Pour batter into a jalebi cloth and then pour it into medium hot Ghee giving jalebi shapes. Cook it from both sides. Remove and keep it in sugar syrup for at least 5 minutes before serving. For jalebi cloth, take some stiff cloth and make a 3 mm hole in the
center.

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