Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, kala jamun. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Kala Jamun is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Kala Jamun is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kala jamun using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Kala Jamun:
- Prepare 200 g soft khoya/mawa/dried evaporated milk solids
- Make ready 1 cup fresh cottage cheese/paneer (roughly from 1 ltrs of milk)
- Prepare 4 Tbsp maida/all purpose flour
- Prepare 1 1/2 Tbsp milk
- Prepare Oil To fry
- Prepare *****
- Take For Sugar syrup:
- Get 2 cups sugar
- Take 1 1/2 cups sater
- Get 1/4 tsp lemon juice
- Get 1 Tbsp rose water
- Prepare 2-3 green cardamom pods, crushed
- Make ready Pinch saffron
These fried balls are dipped in a sugar syrup flavored with cardamom, rose water and saffron! Kala jamun is an exotic sweet dish served on special occasions. Kala Jamuns have a very unique texture as they are chewy outside and grainy inside. This recipe is from the book Mithai.
Steps to make Kala Jamun:
- In a bowl grate khoya, mashed it well using hands, so that there is no lumps. In a separate bowl mash fresh cottage cheese very well, it shouldn't look grainy any more.
- Add mashed cottage cheese to the khoya bowl, add flour, milk and gently mix everything using hands.Form into a smooth dough. (Don't over mix/Knead the dough for too long. stop once everything is mixed thoroughly)
- Pinch small marble sized balls from the dough and roll them in a round shape between your palms,applying gentle pressure. If you want you can keep the balls round or make it oblong cylindrical shape. Shape all the dough and keep them covered.
- In a heavy bottom pan mix sugar and water. When sugar is completely dissolved, add lemon juice and mix.
- Cook the sugar water mixture on medium heat till it becomes thin syrup like consistency. Switch off the gas. Add rose water, cardamom and saffron.
- In a deep frying pan heat oil on medium heat. Once the oil is hot, slide a small ball of dough to the oil. The dough ball should slowly rise up and start floating. It indicates the right temperature of oil.
- Slide in the shaped dough balls in batches. Reduce the heat to medium. Once the jamuns start floating on top, gently keep on turning them to make sure even browning. Fry till it looks dark brown in colour.
- Drain excess oil in a paper towel and quickly add to warm sugar syrup.Cover and allow the jamuns to soak in the sugar syrup at least 4-5 hours or preferably overnight.
Main Ingredients : Hariyali Khoya, Cottage Cheese kala jamun recipe: firstly, in a large mixing bowl take crumbled paneer. mash the paneer till it forms a smooth dough. do not over knead as it releases oil and makes jamun hard. mash till the paneer forms a smooth dough without any paneer particles. Kala jamun is very famous Indian dessert and its similar to gulab jamun, the key difference between kala jamun and gulab jamun is the colour and stuffing. Traditionally kala jamun are made by adding sugar in dough which caramelises upon frying in oil. The caramelisation of sugar makes it dark black in colour. Kala jamun is a very rich and delicious variety of popular Indian sweet Gulab jamun.
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