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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Jalebi or jilabi

Jalebi Recipe
Ingredients
2 cups maida flour
4 tsp rice flour
•a pinch baking powder
1/2 cup curd•
½ tsp saffron threads
3 cups sugar
2 cups water
½ tsp cardamom powder
Ghee for frying
Method•
Mix maida flour, rice flour, baking powder, curd and mix well by adding water little at a time till the batter is completely ready.• Add saffron powder and whisk again. • Set aside for about 2 hours to ferment and whisk again.•
Prepare one-string syrup by boiling and dissolving sugar in the water. • Add saffron and cardamom powder to the syrup. • Pour the batter through a cloth with hole or take a child milk bottle with a hole and squeeze to form coils in heated oil under a steady stream. • Deep fry them until they are golden in color and crisp all over. • Remove and drain on kitchen paper and immerse in the sugar syrup. • Keep them for at least 4-5 minutes so that they are soaked in the syrup. • Take them out of syrup and serve hot.

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