Jalebi

Easy and authentic recipe of jalebi.

Jalebi is a Indian sweet dish made of mainly maida, to make it crispy and juicy sooji or rawa can be added. It famous all over India.

Jalebi can be made in different variations like paneer jalebi, kesar jalebi. It taste delicious with rabri.

Ingredients 

500 grams of maida/refined flour/all purpose flour

50 grams of sooji/rawa
100 grams of curd
1 pinch of baking powder (optional)
500 grams of Sugar
Ghee or oil or vanaspati- for frying jalebis
½ teaspoon saffron

Method 

• Take a big bowl add maida, curd and sooji (and baking powder it is optional as it will ferment your batter quickly if you want to make instant jalebi).
• Now add water and whisk till semi thick consistency (pouring consistency /pancake batter consistency) malpua batter consistency
• Keep this batter at room temperature for 10-12 hours. (if you are adding baking powder in batter then keep batter only for 1-2 hours in normal temperature) but i will suggest you to allow batter to ferment naturally in light warm temperature.
• Heat a pan add equal quantity of sugar and water and add ½ teaspoon kesar, make a sugar syrup of one thread consistency, add 1 table spoon milk to clarify syrup flavour it with cardamom powder or kewda water or rose water it's totally your choice.
• Heat ghee/vanaspati/oil in flat pan, fat should 2-3 cm above the bottom of pan's base.
• Transfer the batter in piping bag or you can use muslin cloth in shape of piping bag as we see in market
• Pour the batter in heated ghee with help of piping bag in a circular motion to give a spiral shape, fry till crisp from both sides
• Dip the fried jalebi in sugar syrup for about 3-5 minutes then put it on a strainer or something that can make extra syrup on jalebi to drain easily.
• Serve hot with rabri.

So hope you all like this recipe too as you liked my previous recipes.You can also check Malpua as well.
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