Diwali is a festival of happiness. On this festival, people worship Goddess Lakshmi and burst a lot of crackers. On this day, people also feed sweets to each other. In such a situation, all kinds of sweets are made in the markets for Diwali. But many times it happens that adulteration is found in the sweets available in the market. Due to which people avoid eating sweets available in the market.
If you are also one of those people who are afraid of eating market sweets, then we teach you to make Gulab Jamun at home. If you want to make tasty and soft Gulab Jamun at home like the confectioners, then here we are going to tell you its easy method. So that you too can prepare unadulterated sweets at home.
Ingredients for making Gulab Jamun
- Mawa (Khoya) - 1 cup
- Refined flour - 2 tbsp
- Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
- Sugar - 2 cups
- Water - 1.5 cups
- Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
- Oil or ghee - for frying
Method
If you want to make Gulab Jamun, then first prepare the syrup. To make it, mix sugar and water in a pan and keep it on medium flame. Now cook it till the sugar dissolves. When the sugar is cooked, add cardamom powder to the syrup. Boil the syrup for 8-10 minutes and prepare one-string syrup. Add rose water to it and turn off the flame. After making the syrup, now you have to prepare Gulab Jamun.
For this, first mash the mawa well so that there are no lumps. After this, add refined flour and baking powder to it and knead soft dough. Prepare small Gulab Jamuns from this flour. Now heat ghee or oil in a pan, keep it on medium to low flame.
Slowly add the Gulab Jamuns to the oil and fry till golden brown. Keep turning it in between so that they get cooked evenly.
Immediately add the fried Gulab Jamuns to the sugar syrup. Leave the Gulab Jamuns in the sugar syrup for 2-3 hours so that they get soaked well in the syrup. Now your tasty and soft Gulab Jamuns are ready.
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