Great Jalebi Recipe

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1 cup

Yeast - 2 tsp

Sugar - 1 tbsp

Corn flour - 2 tbsp

Yogurt - 2 tbsp

Oil -2 tbsp

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Luke warm water - 1/2 cup (more or less)

Yellow food colour - few drops (optional)

Oil - for frying

For Sugar Syrup

Sugar - 1 cup

Water - 3/4 cup

Lemon juice - 1 tsp

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Saffron strands - few

Cooking instructions:

Combine all purpose flour, yeast, sugar, corn flour, yogurt, cardamom powder and oil into one big bowl and mix everything well.

Prepare a thick batter by adding little by little lukewarm water.

Place the batter bowl in the warm place and let it rise for about 30 minutes.

Meanwhile combine sugar, water and lemon juice into one pot and keep it to boil.

Once the syrup comes to boil, turn the flame to low and simmer the syrup till you get the two thread consistency.

Then add cardamom powder and saffron strands .Mix well.

After 30 minutes, check the batter and mix well and fill the batter into jalebi squeezing bottle (you can use ziplog bag or tomato ketchup bottle).

Heat the oil into the pan on the medium flame. Then turn the flame to low and squeeze out the jalebis into circular shapes.

Fry the jalebis till light golden in colour and crisp on both the sides.

Drain the excess of oil from the jalebis and put them into the sugar syrup.

Allow the jalebis to remain the syrup for 20 seconds and then remove on to the plate.

Jalebis are ready to serve.