Jalebi. Jalebi is not just a dessert, but even part of morning breakfast and evening snacks in several parts of India. For example, in Bihar it is served with Poori and Aloo ki Subzee as breakfast. In the evening, it is served as a snack with samosa and kachori.
You can cook Jalebi using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Jalebi
- Prepare 1 cup of maida.
- You need 1 spoon of Corn flour.
- You need 1 spoon of Baking soda.
- Prepare 1 cup of curd.
- You need as required of Orange food colour.
- Prepare 1 cup of Sugar syrup.
They are popular celebration and street cakes in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and India. Jalebi is a hot favorite on any special occasion be it a birthday, wedding or festival. Jalebis, though mostly eaten by themselves, can also be soaked in warm milk. How is jalebi made Traditionally it is made with a fermented batter of all purpose flour, gram flour (besan), baking soda and water.
Jalebi step by step
Sieve all the maida cornflour and baking soda..
Now add curd color and mix well..
Now add water accordindly and make a batter..
It should be in flowing consistency..
Same as you make idli batter or vada pav batter. Let it rest for 6 to 7 hrs..
Now heat oil in a kadhai. Put the mixture in a bottle that can be pressed easily..
Once your oil it heated nicely simmer the flame and pour the mixture spirally giving shape directly in the kadhai. Deep fry..
Remove and put them on a paper napkin to remove the excess oil..
Now add in sugar syrup. It's ready.
This fermented batter is then poured in concentric circles in hot oil and deep-fried. Then these fried spirals are soaked in sugar syrup for a few minutes and later served. Jalebi is a spiral shaped crisp & juicy sweet that is made of all purpose flour, gram flour and sugar syrup. To make jalebi, firstly a batter is prepared using flour. Then it is fermented for several hours to acquire a unique fermented flavor.
