Instant Jalebi

Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 15 min
Serving: 10

Ingredients

for jalebi batter:

• Maida/ All purpose flour: 1/2 cup
• Corn flour: 1 tsp
• Baking soda: ¼ tsp
• Vinegar: ½ tsp 
• Curd/ yogurt: 1 tsp 
•  Water: 5 tbsp or as required
• Yellow food colour/ turmeric powder: ⅛ tsp optional

for sugar syrup:

• Water: ¼ cup 
• Sugar: 1 cup 
• Saffron strands/ kesar: ¼ tsp optional
• Cardamom powder: ¼ tso

other ingredients

• oil for deep frying
• Lemon juice: 1/2 tsp

Preparing sugar syrup:

1. take sugar in a pan and add water.
2. keep stirring on low flame, so that the sugar dissolves.
3. Boil the sugar syrup and add saffron
4. Cook till you get 1 strand consistency in the syrup.
5. once one string consistency is attained, switch off the flame and add ½ tsp lemon juice and cardamom powder. lemon helps to avoid crystallizing sugar syrup and keeps your jalebis crispy.
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Instructions for preparing Jalebi

• in a mixing bowl, mix maida, corn flour & curd.
• add vinegar and water.
• mix well in round circular directions for 4 minutes with blender or hand
• now add baking soda and give a gentle mix.
• now pour this batter in the piping cone or tomato ketchup bottle.
• heat oil in a pan 
• squeeze the bottle and make round spirals with the batter.
• when one side is partly cooked, turn over and fry the other side.
• fry till the jalebis are a light golden.
• then immediately drop the fried jalebis in the warm sugar syrup for 30 seconds (1 string consistency).
• finally, serve jalebis hot, warm or at room temperature.