Jalebi - SK Khazana

Main Ingredients	refined flour, sugar
Cuisine	Indian
Course	Desserts
Prep Time	10-15 hour
Cook time	31-40 minutes
Serve	4
Taste	Sweet
Level of Cooking	Difficult
Others	Veg

Ingredients list for Jalebi - SK Khazana

• 1½ cups + refined flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 tablespoon milk
• A large pinch of saffron
• A pinch of green cardamom powder
• Ghee for deep frying
• Chopped pistachios to sprinkle
• Milk to serve

Method

1. Take 1½ cups refined flour in a bowl, add 1½ cups water and beat with hand for 15-20 minutes to make a light smooth batter. Cover the bowl and keep in a warm place to ferment for 12 hours.
2. Cook sugar with 2 cups water in a deep non-stick pan on high heat, stirring continuously. Add milk, mix well and bring it to boil. Discard the scum that will rise to the top.
3. Add saffron and green cardamom powder and mix well. Cook till the sugar syrup reaches one string consistency.
4. Add the remaining flour to the fermented batter and mix well with your hand.
5. Heat sufficient ghee in a kadai on medium heat. Pour the fermented jalebi batter in jalebi cloth and pipe the spirals directly into moderately hot ghee and deep-fry till crisp.
6. Drain and soak in sugar syrup for 5-10 minutes. Remove from the sugar syrup and place them on a serving platter. Garnish with pistachios and serve warm with milk.