Jalebi | Instant Jalebi recipe
crispy, golden spiral shaped, fried desserts soaked in sugar syrup.
Servings 28 jalebis
Ingredients
For sugar syrup
- 200 gms sugar
- 100 ml water
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- a generous pinch of saffron (kesar)
- ¼ cup of of hot water
For Jalebis
- ½ cup of refined flour (maida)
- 2 tbsp curds
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- a pinch of salt
- a pinch of turmeric powder
- Ghee /Oil for frying jalebis
- Dried rose petals for garnishing
Instructions
- Soak saffron in hot water for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Heat a pan, Add sugar and water.
- Add the saffron mixture into this and cook on low heat till the syrup reaches one string consistency. Add lemon juice to avoid crystallisation of sugar syrup. Keep sugar syrup aside.
- To make the Jalebi batter, in a mixing bowl, add maida, curds and mix well.
- Next add turmeric powder and salt.
- Add water gradually and mix well to make a semi thick batter.
- Add baking soda and mix well.
- Transfer this batter to a piping bag.
- Cut the tip of the piping bag and pipe concentric circles into medium hot ghee/oil.
- Fry jalebis on the both sides till they turn crispy.
- Remove the jalebis and drop into warm sugar syrup.
- Soak the jalebis in sugar syrup for 3 to 4 minutes.
- Remove the jalebis from the sugar syrup draining the excess sugar syrup.
- Repeat same process with the remaining batter.
- Garnish the jalebis with dried rose petals.
Notes
I have used a pinch of turmeric powder to impart yellow colour to jalebis. You may also use yellow food colour instead of turmeric powder.