I have been to a party where I had some yummy gulab jamuns. Its been a while that I made them, so thought I will make them this time for my husband’s birthday party. It was nice, quick and easy method. But I dint use any of those instant mixes that you get in the market like MTR or Bambino. I wanted to do it from the scratch! SO here goes the yummy recipe!
Ingredients:
Full Cream Milk Powder – 1.5 cups
Self Raising Flour – 0.5 cup
Thickened cream – As required
Oil for fryiing
Sugar – 4 cups
Water – 7 cups
A bit of elaichi (cardamom) powder for its flavour
Some grated nuts like Pista, Cashew and Almonds for garnishing.
Procedure:
Firstly, mix both sugar and water in a dish and boil it for 10-15 minutes to form sugar syrup. Now switch off the stove and put cardamom (elaichi) powder in it and let it cool.
Make a dough with Milk powder and Self raising flour by adding just enough cream to it. Make small balls out of the dough. The milk powder in the Gulab Jamuns gives them a kind of “Kova” taste.
In a pan heat the oil and fry the the small dough balls in it till they reach nice brown colour. Take them out of the oil and let them cool
Now soak the jamuns (the fried balls) into the sugar syrup for atleast 20 minutes. Garnish them with the pista, cashew or badam flakes.
And Voila! Some yummy Gulab Jamuns are ready for serving.
Absolutely gorgeous looking gulab jamuns! I’m going to try your recipe using milk powder.