Jalebi Recipe

Ingredients

• 250g maida (all-purpose) flour
• 25g gram flour
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 cup yogurt
• 2 ½ cups water
• 350g sugar
• 2-3 pinches yellow color
• 500g ghee or butter
• 4-6 threads saffron, soaked in 2 tbsp hot milk

How to make Jalebi

1. Mix together the flours, oil, yogurt and water to make a medium thick paste.
2. Cover and keep overnight for fermentation.
3. Prepare a two string syrup with the sugar and water.
4. Add yellow color and saffron to the syrup.
5. Keep aside.
6. Beat the flour mixture well and fill in a plastic bag with a hole at the bottom.
7. Squeeze out the batter by pressing the bag into the hot ghee.
8. Drop medium sized whirls in a continuous flow beginning from outer circle and ending in the center.
9. This will give better shape to the jalebies.
10. then dip in the suger syrup.