- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 3 cardamom (powdered)
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
For the gulab jamun
- 9 tbsp milk powder
- 3½ tbsp maida
- 1 tbsp rava / semolina
- pinch of baking soda
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp ghee / clarified butter
- 4-5 tbsp milk, warm
Method
- Take 1 cup of sugar in a wide pan
- Add 1 cup of water and bring it to a boil
- Simmer for 4 minutes till the sugar syrup turns slightly sticky
- Add the cardamom powder
- Add the lemon juice to stop the crystallization process
- cover and keep aside.
gulab jamun recipe
- In a large mixing bowl take milk powder.
- Add maida and rava
- Add a pinch of baking soda
- Add ghee and lemon juice
- Add milk little by little and knead well into a smooth dough
- Make small balls
- Make sure there are no cracks on balls because there are chances it may crack when frying
- heat the ghee on low flame and fry the jamuns
- fry the balls on low flame stirring in between.
- fry till the balls turns golden brown.
- Drop the hot jamuns into the hot sugar syrup (flame turned off)
- Let it rest for 2 hours
- The jamuns will double in size.
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