Now let’s start from scratch….
Ingredients
For the jamuns:
- 1 cup milk powder
- ¼ cup All-purpose flour or maida
- ½ tsp. ghee
- a pinch of Baking soda
- 1-2 tbsp. curd
- a few blanched pistachio or almond slices for garnishing (optional)
For the sugar syrup:
- 2 cups Water
- 2 cups Sugar
- 3 to 4 green cardamoms, powdered
- A pinch of saffron, optional
- 1 tsp. Rose water, optional
Method
- For preparing the sugar solution, first mix water, sugar, cardamom and saffron.
- Keep this sugar solution on fire and cook till you get a syrup consistency. There should be no thread formation in the sugar solution.
- Stir in the rose water and keep aside.
- For preparing the jamuns, first mix the milk powder, all-purpose flour, baking soda in a bowl.
- Add oil ghee and just 1 tbsp. of yogurt. Mix and keep on adding little of the yogurt to get a soft sticky mixture.
- The dough should not be crumbly or dry. If it is then add some yogurt to make it soft.
- Make smooth small balls from the dough.
- Heat the oil and then reduce the flame to low.
- Add the rolled balls and fry them stirring often to get even colour.
- After the jamuns become golden brown, remove with a slotted spoon and add them to the sugar syrup.
- Let them soak in the sugar syrup for atleast 1-2 hours.
- Gulab jamuns can be served warm or cold. If they are at room temperature, then warm in the microwave and serve gulab jamuns topped with sugar syrup.
- You can decorate them with pista or almond slices, if you want.