Gulab Jamun

Ingredients:

Gulab Jamun Packet - 200 gm

Milk - 1/2 - 3/4 cup

Sugar - 700 gm

Elachi powder - 1/2 tbsp

Water - 700 ml

Oil - to deep fry

Procedure:

Even-though Gulab Jamun is a simple recipe to prepare, most of the people fail to get smooth ones when they prepare at their home. Here is the easy recipe of soft and fluffy Gulab Jamun along with 4 important tips.

1. Open the pack and mix the contents with water or milk to get smooth dough. Here I used milk in place of water to get smooth dough. Set the dough aside for 15-20 minutes. Take a small portion of dough and rub gently in between your palms to get desired shape and size.
2. Now take a wide cooking vessel, add sugar, water and boil for few minutes until syrupy consistency is attained. Then keep the syrup warm by placing it under very low flame, add sprinkle elachi powder. Fry the prepared balls in oil under they turn to brown color. Be sure that all the balls are fried in low to medium flame only.
3. While frying the prepared balls, do not overcrowd the kadai, add only 7-8 balls at a time. Because after frying in oil the balls will increase in size, so they should have sufficient space to move in oil. Similarly do not touch the balls with ladle until they are completely fried. Just move the oil around the balls in order to turn them in all directions.
4. Once they are evenly fried, add them immediately in warm syrup. Then wait for few minutes, take off from the flame and wait for at least 2-3 hours until the jamuns completely absorb the syrup and turn juicy.