Sunday, 26 July 2015

Jilebi

Ingredients
Maida - 1 cup
Corn Flour - 2 tblsp
Thick Curd - 3/4 cup
Cooking soda - 1 pinch
Ghee - 2 tblsp
Yellow food colour - 1/2 pinch
Oil + ghee - for deep frying
Ingredients For sugar syrup
Sugar - 1 cup
Water - 1 cup
Lemon juice - 1 tsp
Yellow food colour - 1/4 pinch
Cardamom powder - Optional
Method
Mix maida,corn flour, cooking soda,ghee and yellow food colour in a bowl. Add curd and make a thick batter by adding more water... Consistency should be like vada batter. Keep it in a warm place for 12 hours/overnight or until it ferments well.Next day mix well with a ladle. It should be a sticky thick batter of dropping consistency.
In another stove, boil sugar with water,food colour, until one string consistency. Say 15 minutes in medium high flame. Then add lemon juice, cardamom, saffron and keep in lowest heat possible.
In a flat bottomed pan, heat oil+ ghee. Level should be very low as shown in the pic. Take a cloth with a smallest hole in the middle or a durable Ziploc bag with hole in the middle. Fill with the batter and draw circles in a medium heated oil. oil should never fume. Also  it should be enough to fry the jalebis porous and crisp. So adjust the heat accordingly. Make 3-4 circles per piece and end the circle by overlapping the tip when you end, otherwise the shape wont be good.
frying
Fry on both sides till crisp and drain it and add immediately to the hot sugar syrup. Let it be dunked in the syrup for 2 minutes at least. After some time, drain it and arrange in a plate.

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