Ingredients:
- 4 slice Bread
- 3 tbsp Condensed milk
- 5 cups Milk
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 4-5 Cardamom/elaichi (crushed)
- Few strands of Saffron/Kesar
- Oil for deep frying
- 1 tsp Almond(chopped)
- 1 tsp Pistachios(choped)
- 1/2 tsp Rose water
Steps / Method:
- Cut the edges of the bread, then diagonally cut the bread.
- Then heat 200 ml oil in a pan.
- Now deep fry the diagonally shaped bread in the oil, until golden brown.
- Then keep aside the fried bread.
- Then in a pan boil milk for 5 minutes.
- Now put the condensed milk, sugar, saffron/kesar and mix well.
- Then boil for another 5 minutes.
- Then add the crushed elaichi and rose water into it and mix well.
- Then remove the processed milk from heat and allow it to cool.
- Now arrange the fried bread slice in a bowl/serving plate.
- Then put the processed milk over the bread and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
- Now sprinkle almond and pistachios over the bread.
- Taste best when mild chilled.
Jalebi
INGREDIENTS:-
- 2 cups All purpose flour(maida)
- 2 tbsp Rice flour
- 1/2 cup Curd
- A pinch of Baking powder
- 500 ml Sugar syrup(thin)
- Oil for deep frying
METHOD:-
- Mix maida, rice flour and baking powder.
- Then add curd and water to make batter of it.
- Whip the batter untill smooth.
- Keep aside for 4 hours to ferment.
- Heat enough oil in a pan, the oil must not be too hot.
- Take a square size cloth and make a little hole in the middle of the cloth.
- Then put some batter in the cloth and seal the cloth like a pouch.
- Now put pressure over the cloth, so that the batter comes ou of the cloth.
- Stream the batter into the oil to form coils.
- Make 5 coils at a time.
- Deep fry untill crispy.
- Remove the coils from the oil.
- Then dip the coils into the sugar syrup for about 3 minutes.
- After that remove the jalebi from sugar syrup and serve hot.
Gulab jamun
INGREDIENTS:-
- 1 cup Khoya/Mawa
- 4 tbsp All purpose flour/Maida
- 3 tbsp Condensed milk
- 50 gm Chenna/Paneer
- A pinch of Soda bicabonate/Baking powder
- Ghee/Oil for deep frying
- 1 tsp Elaichi powder
- 11/2 cup sugar
METHOD:-
- In a large pan add 3 cups of water, sugar and a pinch of elaichi powder and boil it.
- Cook for 5 minutes or untill the sugar dissolves into it.
- Now remove the sugar syrup from the heat and set aside to cool.
- Then grate the khoya and keep aside.
- Mash the chenna/paneer finely and mix it with grated khoya.
- In that mixture add soda bicarbonate, maida, condensed milk, elaichi powder and water(as much required to make a soft dough).
- Make balls of the dough by rolling gently between your palms.
- Heat ghee/oil in a kadhai.
- The oil must be semi-heat.
- If the oil is too hot then the gulab jamuns will remain uncooked from inside.
- Put the dough ball into the semi-heat oil and fry till golden brown.
- The balls must be fried very slowly under medium heat.
- Remove the jamuns from the oil.
- Then dip the gulab jamuns into the sugar syrup and shake the pan gently.
- After 10 minutes the gulab jamuns will sinkin the sugar syrup.
- Now the gulab jamuns are ready to serve.