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Gulab Jamun Recipe with just 2 ingredients

Course Dessert
Cuisine Indian

Ingredients
  

  • ½ cup All-purpose Flour
  • 1 cup Milk Powder
  • ¾ tsp Baking Powder
  • ½ cup Fresh Cream or Malai
  • 2 cup Water
  • 2 cup Sugar
  • 3 Cardamom crushed
  • 2-3 drops Lemon Juice

Instructions
 

Gulab Jamun

  • Sieve in all-purpose flour, milk powder and baking powder together.
  • Add fresh cream in batches and keep on mixing with light hands.
  • Knead a little to mix everything well. Rub your palms with ghee.
  • Take a small amount of dough and with lights hands rub it in between your palms to make a smooth ball.
  • Take a pan and heat some oil in it.
  • Fry only a few balls at a time on low flame.
  • Put the hot gulab jamun in medium hot sugar syrup and let it soak for 2-3 hours.

Sugar Syrup

  • Add water, sugar and cardamom in a large pan.
  • Mix and cook on medium high flame for 7-8 minutes.
  • Add in lemon juice to avoid crystallization.

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Notes

Shilpi’s Quick Tricks
Sugar Syrup
  • Don’t make the syrup too thick otherwise Gulab jamun won’t absorb it.
  • Syrup should be sticky.
  • Should not taste watery.
Gulab Jamun
  • Use one cup for all measurements.
  • Use measuring cups and spoons for accurate measurements.
  • Don’t knead dough too much otherwise it will start to leave ghee.
  • Make sure that the gulab jamuns are crack free otherwise it will crack open while frying.
  • Before frying the gulab jamuns drop a small piece of dough and if it skins with small bubbles that means oil is ready.
  • Stir oil continuously for even cooking.
  • Fry gulab jamuns immediately after rolling or else it will dry.
Keyword dessert, sweet
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