Tag: #simpledessert

Gulab jamun are imo the best desi dessert. Ever. They are basically powdered milk balls fried and soaked in sugar syrup. 🤤

Ingredients:

• 3/4 a cup of powdered milk.
• 1/2 cup of semolina
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 2 tbsp. ghee or clarified butter*
• milk as required for kneading the dough approx. 3-4 tbsp.

For the sugar syrup:

• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of water
• lemon juice 1 tsp

Optional add-in for the syrup:

• a few strands of saffron
• rose water 1 tbsp.
• cardamom

Method:

1. Add all the dry ingredients to a bowl and stir.
2. Now add in the ghee and sort of crumble it up so its like moist sand.
3. Now slowly add in the milk until it forms a firm dough.
4. Now add the ingredients for the sugar syrup to a pan and cook until it boils.
5. Now start making small ball of the dough and try to make them as uniform as possible.
6. Fry the balls at a low flame until brown.
7. Immediately add it to the sugar syrup which you should have poured out into a bowl.
8. Let them sit for about half an hour so they soak up the syrup.

yay

your done.