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cooking gulab jamun with khoya/gulab jamun recipe

Total Time 50 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • Home made khoya/store bought - 3/4 cup
  • All purpose flour - 1/4 cup
  • Oil as required
  • Sugar - 2 cups
  • Water for sugar syrup - 21/4 cups
  • Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
  • Saffron - few strands
  • Rose essence - one or two drops
  • Baking soda - 1/8 tsp

Instructions
 

  • Add sugar to boiling water and when it dissolves filter it.
  • Then again bring to boil and add cardamom powder,essence and saffron to it.
  • Boil for some seven to eight minutes and switch off.
  • Now add khoya,all purpose flour and baking soda in a bowl and knead well to form a dough.
  • Shape the dough into balls according to your need.
  • Fry in medium flame.
  • Take out golden in a tissue.
  • Immediately transfer it to the syrup.
  • Repeat the process till done.
  • And now delicious gulab jamun is ready.

Notes

These are one of the variety of jamun there are many varieties of jamuns.
Don't boil the syrup more than given time and the syrup should be warm.
Fried hot jamun's should be added to the sugar syrup.
Always keep the flame low when frying jamuns.
Add correct amount of baking soda for perfect jamun's.
If there is no enough moisture in khoya to form a dough add milk to it.