May 21, 2008

Gulab jamun

Amma makes soft gulab jamuns.This is one of her
popular recipe .
Ingredients
unsweetened kova - 1/4 kg
All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cup
Ghee - 1 tblsp
Baking soda - 1 pinch
milk to mix
For Syrup
sugar - 3 cups
water - 3 cups
cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
Method
melt ghee and mix it to the flour with fingers.
Add kova,baking soda to the flour.
Sprinkle milk just enough to make like soft ball.
It should not have any crack when you make balls.
Make small balls and cover it with wet towel.
Meanwhile add sugar and water in a wide bottomed vessel.
Heat it till it boils .Add cardamom powder.
Heat oil in a kadai.Be sure to keep it in a low flame.
Put the balls slowly in the oil and fry it will golden brown.
Now drop the fried jamuns in the sugar syrup.
Serve after 2 hrs.

13 comments:

Unknown said...

Gulab Jamun looks yumm:) Its one of my favorite sweet, the other one wud be Kaju/Badam katli:)

Prema Sundar said...

They look lovely . My MIL makes wonderful jamoons with whole...but its a long process. my daughter loves jamoons and has been asking me to make it for quite some time. ur recipe with khoya sounds good . thanks for sharing.
BTW veechu parota looks great ..

Unknown said...

Kamala..the gulab jamuns look wonderful..love them anytime..U have a surprise at my blog

ranji said...

jamun looks delcious kamala!!!one of my favs:)..

Uma said...

lovely jamoons, Kamala! I make them with instant powder. Your home made jamoons look simplay delicious.

Hetal said...

ummm....mouth watering Gulab jaamun!!

Cham said...

Hi kamala,
my "anni" makes with Kova,lovely recipe. Superb jamun, how is ur finger?
BTW, i didnt get any update in my reader... i will make sure again.

Srivalli said...

kamala..that looks so soft..great that you make everything on your own..I have not even tried the ready made mix..heheheh...

hope you hand is better now!

nice layout..looks cute

notyet100 said...

wow my fav too...feel like having ow,..nice recipe will try soon..

Rahin said...

Hi Kamala, gulab jamuns look yummy

Dori said...

Yummy, here is one of my fav's... Looks too good!

Unknown said...

Akka i made gulab jamuns with ur recipe.Wlll post today

Anonymous said...

Kalamaji jamun looks delcious ..