Gulab Jamun

Gulab Jamun

A decadent & most delicious South Asian dessert, popular in Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan & Nepalese Cuisines.

Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 cup NIDO or any other full cream milk powder
• 2 tbsp Sooji
• 2 tbsp All-purpose Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 2 tbsp Ghee / Purified Butter
• 1 Egg
• Sheera / Sugar Syrup:
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 cups water
• 3-4 Illaichi / Cardamom
• Yellow / Orange food color (optional)

Method:

• Make sheera (sugar syrup) first as you need it luke warm before you can add gulab jamun balls in it.
• Boil sugar in water with cardamoms until solution thickens a bit and is of syrupy consistency.
• Let it cool down to luke warm temperature and meanwhile prepare dough.
• Mix all above ingredients for gulab jamun dough and knead until smooth.

• Make smalls balls.

• Deep fry them on low heat until golden brown (or as per your liking). 

• While frying gulab jamun will increase in size.
• Now add gulab jamun in sheera / sugar syrup and let them immersed for a while and they will increase in size even more.

¬ Serve & enjoy!

Tips: 

• Make sure to stir gulab jamun continuously while frying or balls will be of uneven colour. 
• Moreover flame should be low or medium low. High flame will cause gulab jamun to get brown early from outside but dough will remain uncooked from inside.