Jalebi
By: Anonymous
Published: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 4:40am

Ingredients




200 grams Plain flour, (maida)
20 grams Gram flour, (besan)
200 grams Sugar
Few drops yellow colour
2 tablespoons Milk
Ghee to deep fry
A plastic easy squeeze bottle

Preparation

1 Sieve 100 g maida and besan together. 2 Make a batter using warn water. 3 Keep aside for 24 hours. 4 Add remaining maida and food colour and more warm water if required. 5 The batter should fall easily when poured - Not too thick not too thin. 6 Keep aside. 7 Make syrup of the sugar by adding water and boiling. 8 Add the milk and all the scum to form while boiling. 9 Make one string syrup. Strain. 10 Fill bottle with batter. The nozzle should have a hole the thickness of a knitting needle. 11 Heat ghee well in a shallow frying pan and form jalebis in the form of concentric circles about 2 inches on the outside. 12 Fry till crisp, drop into hot syrup. Drain with a perforated spoon, serve hot. 13 Makes: 30-35 pieces