Jalebi

Jalebi and Jangri both are my favorite sweets.But I don`t know both are different until my college days.I tasted Jalebi at first during my PG days only.My North Indian friends loves to have ice cream with either this hot jalebi or carrot halwa.I tried this combination during one of the festival called Marketing Mela in our college and I started loving it from that day onwards.

Like my friends I also started loving this hot jalebi with vanila ice cream.Trust my this combination tastes like heaven.Do try this recipe and let me know how it is.

Ingredients

For the jalebi

All purpose flour-1 cup

Corn Flour-2 Tsp

Curd-3/4 cup

Ghee-1 tsp

Yellow food colour-as required

Oil+Ghee or  oil-for deep frying

Saffron -for topping(optional)

For the Sugar Syrup

Sugar-1 cup

Elachi powder-1 tsp

Lemon Juice-1-2 Tsp

Rose Essence-2 drops

Pictorial 

Mix Curd,hot Ghee,cooking soda,maida,corn flour and yellow food color well with a beater.Add required water and make it as a thick batter(like vada batter).Let it ferment for about 8-12 hours or overnight.

The Next day first start by making a sugar syrup.Add sugar,elachi powder,and water in a pan and make single string consistency sugar syrup.switch off the flame and add lemon juice,rose essence to the syrup.

Now heat oil + ghee (or oil and a tsp of ghee) in a thick,flat bottomed pan.Pour the jalebi batter in a Zip lock cover and draw concentric circles in the oil like this.(Note:the oil shouldn`t be too hot,you should able to draw circles at the bottom of the pan.Once its drawn it should bubble up immediately,thats the correct temperature of the oil)

Now soak the fried jalebi into the sugar syrup and then shift it to a plate.Don`t soak it for too long.Soak it till the next batch of frying is done.

Do like this for all the jalebi.Now everything is done.

Enjoy your hot hot jalebi with Icecream or as it is.