To make jalebi, firstly a batter is prepared using flour. Then it is fermented for several hours to acquire a unique fermented flavor.
Then the batter is poured to spirals or concentric circles in the hot oil. They are fried until crisp and then immersed in sugar syrup.
There are 2 ways to make Jalebi:
1. Traditional method made by fermenting the batter.
2. Instant version without fermentation.
I have shared tips to make both the methods in this post.
Essential Ingredients - No Yeast Instant Jalebi
Refined flour - 1 cup (125 grams)
Urad Dal - 1/4 cup (50 grams) soaked
Sugar - 2 cups (450 grams)
Red food color - less than ½ pinch
Baking Powder - 1/3 tsp
Cardamom - 6-7
Lemon - ½ or 1 teaspoon juice
Ghee or refined oil - for frying jalebi
How to make crispy jalebi at home
Prepare jalebi batter
Wash and soak the urad dal in water for 2 hours. After 2 hours remove the excess water from the lentils and put the lentils in the mixer jar, add as much water as necessary to grind the lentils and prepare a paste after grinding it finely.
Take refined flour in a big bowl, add baking powder and red food color and mix. Now add a little water to the flour and make smooth batter until it gets ready.
Add powdered urad dal to the flour mixture and mix well. Do not make the batter too thin or too thick, the batter is ready. 3/4 cup water is used to make this much batter. Batter is ready to make jalebi.
Sugar syrup - Prepare Sugar Syrup for Jalebi
To make sugar syrup, put sugar and one and a half cups of water in a big pot and keep it for cooking, cook the sugar until it completely dissolves in the whole water. Keep stirring every 1-2 minutes. After sugar dissolves in water, cook the sugar syrup for 4-5 minutes.
Now check it, take 1- 2 drops from a spoon in a cup of sugar syrup, after it cools, stick it between finger and thumb, if 1 wire is forming in the syrup, then syrup is ready, if the wire in the syrup is ready If it is not being prepared, then cook it for 1-2 minutes and check it again like this, as soon as you get 1-wire consistency, turn off the gas.
Add 1 teaspoon lemon juice to the syrup, so that the syrup will not freeze. Add crushed cardamom powder to it and sugar syrup is ready.
Make jalebi
To make jalebi, heat ghee in a pan. To make Jalebi, take a cone (you can make it by filling the batter in a sauce bottle or else a jalebi can be made by filling the batter in a polythene).
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