Kitchen-Kollections

Hii..all..Happy Deepawali to all!! Its time for sweets..sweets sweets. Deepawali is a time when one can gorge on sweets happily And also its been quite a while since i have made any sweets..Jalebi is one thing which i always wanted to make..but never tried it. Whenever I think of Jalebi..i remember that dhara ad..that little boy says the word “Jalebi” so cutely…I think more people got interested in eating jalebi more than buying that oil brand!!!

Frankly speaking i dont know whats it called in english…i only know jalebi flour circles?? it would be funny to describe it in english..anyhow..here is how i prepared my first ever jalebi….

Ingredients

1cup plain flour (maida)
1/4th cup gram flour (besan)
1 cup sugar
few drops yellow colour
2 tbsp. milk
Oil for deep frying
a plastic easy squeeze bottle

Method

• Sieve 1/2 cup maida and besan together. Make a batter using warm water.
• Keep aside for 24 hours. Add remaining maida and food colour and more warm water if required.
• The batter should fall easily when poured – Not too thick not too thin, keep it aside.
• Make syrup of the sugar and water. Boil it well. Make one string syrup. 
• Fill the bottle with batter.
• Heat oil well in a shallow frying pan and form jalebis in the form of concentric circles about 2 inches on the outside.
• Fry till crisp, drop into hot syrup. Drain with a perforated spoon, serve hot.

Note : I used a bottle for preparing jalebis…you can use a ziplock bag too. Just cut the corner of the bag. The hole should be about the thickness of a knitting needle.