Upvas ki jalebi

 Jay Annapurna Maa! You are welcomed on this blog for Vegetarian recipes. Here is a recipe for fasting sweet. Please try it.

Ingredients

For syrup

400 gram sugar, 1 cup water, 2 to 3 drops of saffron essence, a pinch of cardamom powder.

For dough

250 grams boiled peeled and mashed potatoes, 125 grams fresh whipped curd, 125 gram arrowroot powder, 2 to 3 drops food grade orange colour and ghee for deep frying.

Method

For syrup

1. Boil sugar and water together.

2. Keep stirring till one thread consistency is done. 

3. Put off the fire add saffron essence and cardamom powder. Mix well. 

Note: If you are not having saffron essence then you can try this: Take 2-3 tsp Luke warm water and soak 4-5 saffron leaves for half hour. And you can add this to your sugar syrup.

For Dough

Add knead well mashed potatoes, curd and arrowroot powder to make a smooth dough. The consistency of dough must be like that of pakodi batter.

Method

1. Take a muslin cloth or jalebi maker, add the dough in it. If you are using muslin cloth, make a small hole at the bottom of it and then add the dough by keeping the cloth in a bowl. After adding the dough in it knot it at top.

2. Heat ghee in a deep frying pan on low flame. Protrude the dough either through jalebi maker or muslin cloth, then put the jalebi shape with the dough in ghee. Slowly fry jalebis and they are ready.

3. Take away all the jalebis from the pan and keep them aside in a fine strainer so that extra ghee will be strained away from the jalebis. Keep the strainer in a bowl so that you can use that ghee again for frying.

4. Dip the jalebis the sugar syrup for a minute and take away from it in a serving bowl and the jalebis are ready. 

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