The jalebis are sweets having crispy, chewy texture with a crystallized sugary coating.
Course Sweets & Desserts
Cuisine Indian
Keyword Bengali sweets, diwali sweets, home made jalebi recipe, instant jalebi, Jalebi
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 10 minutesminutes
Total Time 20 minutesminutes
Author Sowji'sKitchen
Ingredients
1cupFlour
4tbspCorn Flour
1/4tspBaking soda
1/4tspFood color
4tbspYogurt
3/4cupWater
Ingredients for syrup
1cupSugar
1/2cupWater
2tspLemon juice
2Cardamom
Instructions
Preparing sugar syrup:
Take 1 cup sugar in a pan and add 1/2 cup water.
Add cardamom and saffron strands .
keep stirring on low flame, so that the sugar dissolves.
Boil until sugar melts completely.
Keep stir until for 5 more mins . switch off the flame and add ½ tsp lemon juice.(lemon helps to avoid crystallizing sugar syrup and keeps your jalebis crispy.)
Preparing jalebi batter:
In a mixing bowl, take 1 cup all purpose flour or maida, 4 tbsp corn flour, 1/4 tsp baking soda and 4 tbsp curd
Mix all the above ingredients with a spoon
Add 1/2 cup water or as required.
whisk well in round circular directions for 5 minutes. This adds volume to the batter and makes it even and smooth.
Add food color and mix well. Batter lightly and it should have a flowing consistency.
pour this batter in the sauce bottle carefully.
Frying jalebis:
Heat oil in a pan.
squeeze the bottle and make round spirals with the batter.
Fry till the jalebis are a light golden. remove and shake to drain the extra oil.
Then immediately drop the fried jalebis in the warm sugar syrup.
Dip and turn over so that both sides are coated with the syrup.
Serve jalebi recipe hot, warm or at room temperature. store the leftovers jalebi in an airtight container and refrigerated.