Homemade Gulab Jamuns for Taste n Create

For this months Taste n Create I was paired with Parita of Parita's World. Parita has a beautiful blog and there were so many delectable dishes to choose from. In the end I decided to try these awesome Gulab Jamuns. It's my favorite sweet and I could have any number of them at a time. I make these often, but they are always from packaged mixes, so it was great making them from scratch. This is a wonderful recipe and the Jamuns were just perfect.
I made these in the afternoon, so they would be ready by the time Manoj got home but we also had some friends come over that same evening, so I had to literally hide some Jamuns so I could take a picture of them. The jamuns were gone in minutes and everyone was so surprised that I actually made them at home. Thanks Parita for this wonderful recipe.

Gulab Jamun

Ingredients:

2 cups Milk Powder

1/2 cup + 1tbs all purpose flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 cup milk

1 tbs ghee or melted butter

oil for frying

For the sugar syrup:

2 cups sugar

2 cups water

1 tsp crushed cardomom seeds

few strands of saffron

Method:

Mix the milk powder, flour, baking soda and ghee till the mixture resembles crumbs.

Add milk little by little to make a soft dough. Cover and keep aside for 1/2 hour.

Make small balls of the dough ( I got 40) and deep fry on medium low heat till brown. Fry each batch for atleast 4-5 mins. The oil should not not be too hot or they will brown too quickly.

Drain on paper towels.

When frying, make the sugar syrup. Bring the water, sugar and cardamom to a boil and then simmer for 10 mins.

When all the Jamuns are fried drop them into the hot syrup and let it soak for about 4 hours.

Serve the Gulab Jamuns warm.