Here comes the most popular sweet recipe of the Indian cuisine, Jalebi. It’s a deep fried dessert prepared from all purpose flour, soaked in sugar syrup and garnished with aromatic saffron strands. This can be made right in your own kitchen easily. Try this delicious celebration sweet & the melt-in-mouth taste.
Ingredients
Yoghurd - ½ cup
Maida flour - 100 g
Corn flour - 30 g
Orange food color - a pinch
Saffron strands - ½ tsp
Sugar - 1 ½ cup
Oil to fry
1 of 2
Instructions
1.
In a bowl, add yoghurt and beat well
2.
Add maida and corn flour to it
3.
Add food color, crushed saffron and mix without lumps
4.
Add 1 tbsp of hot oil & mix well again
5.
Let it ferment for 4 to 5 hrs in warm place
6.
After fermentation, you can smell a very good flavor from the batter
7.
Mix the batter very good with hands and see to it, the consistency is loose ( it should pour down like single thread when dropped from top )
8.
Heat oil in a fry pan
9.
Fill the batter in a ziplock cover and make a very small hole in it at the bottom
10.
Meanwhile, to prepare sugar syrup, add sugar to the bowl
11.
Add very little water to it and heat with stirring
12.
Once the sugar syrup attains one string consistency, add few saffron strands and remove from flame ( we can add 2 to 3 drops of lemon juice, to prevent crystallization of sugar syrup )
13.
Now, squeeze the batter from ziplock cover to small circles in hot oil ( I couldn't get perfect shape, but in practise, its possible ! )
14.
Let it cook in low medium heat to crispy jalebis
15.
Remove from heat and drop it in warm sugar syrup
16.
Soak it for a minute and take it off
17.
Awesome crispy & juicy Jalebi is ready to enjoy :)
18.
Jalebis tastes best when served hot !