GULAB JAMUN

GULAB JAMUN

Indian fried doughnuts soaked in sugar syrup.

There are many ways of making gulab jamuns. I like this recipe as it's simple and easy to make. For the beginners, this recipe is perfect. This batch can make about 35 to 40 balls of jamuns. Of course, you don't have to soak all in the syrup. I freeze rest of the jamuns and make fresh syrup everytime when needed. 

Makes 35-40

Time: 40 minutes

2 cups milk powder

1/2 cup semolina

1/2 cup plain flour

4 tsp melted ghee/butter

1 cup ice cold milk

1/4 tsp baking soda

Method

Sieve the milk powder, semolina, plain flour and baking soda in a bowl. To this add the ghee/butter, rub the flours into a coarse texture. Now, add the milk little at a time and knead into a soft dough. Refrigerate the dough for 10 minutes. By this time, the dough should have hardened slightly.

Roll balls and fry on medium low heat till golden brown all around. Remove and cool them completely

For the sugar syrup, add the sugar and water to a pan and bring to a boil, till sugar has dissolved. Simmer till it reaches one thread consistency.

Put the gulab jamuns in the sugar syrup and leave aside for half an hour till they have puffed up.

Serve warm with syrup on its own or like my boys do, have hot Gulab jamuns with scoop of vanilla ice cream