Name: Jalebi Recipe (How to Make Instant Jalebi at Home)
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 2 cups Granulated Sugar; 1 cup Water; ¼ tsp Orange or Yellow Food colour; ½ tsp Ground Cardamom; ⅛ tsp Saffron; 2 tsp Lemon Juice (or to taste); 1 cup Plain Flour (Maida); 1 tbsp Cornstarch; ¼ tsp Baking soda; ¼ tsp Salt; ½ cup Plain Curd (Yogurt); ½ cup Water (or as needed); ¼ tsp Orange or Yellow Food colour; 1 tsp Lemon juice; Ghee or Oil ( for shallow frying)

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Jalebi Recipe, one of the most popular and loved sweet recipe for the North of India. This is made with a flour, yogurt batter which is added to piping bag and piped on hot oil. This is a deep fried and then drenched in sweet sugar syrup. It taste more or like honeycomb. Traditionally it is allowed to ferment before making, but this version of mine is an Instant version that can be made from start to finish in less than 40 minutes.

Jalebi Recipe

Jalebi is probably one of the sweet which I stayed away for such a long time thinking that it is a complicated one to make. It needs fermentation time which makes it pretty time consuming.

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But recently I tried a version which can be made in an instant. I am giving you step by step recipe for this. So you too can prepare it at home. This recipe is really simple to make and it taste great. This is a must try recipe for this Diwali.

About Instant Jalebi

Jalebi is an Indian deep fried and sugar drenched sweet that is served hot with rabri in Northern part of India. You can easy call them as Indian funnel cake. It is crispy, sugary and slightly tangy.

If you have never heard about jalebi, it is a deep fried Indian sweet which is then drenched in sweet sugar syrup. It taste more or like honeycomb. Yes HONEYCOMB. Similar to jangri.

Traditionally jalebi is made with a fermented batter which creates the iconic slight tangy taste to it. But this version which I made is an Instant recipe and it can be made within 40 minutes.

Ingredients for jalebi is super simple. I made a batter with plain flour, yogurt, baking soda, salt, food colour and lemon juice. This batter is added to a piping bag and piped on a skillet with ghee or oil. You have to fry them till crispy.

Final step is soaking the fried jalebi in a saffron cardamom flavoured sugar syrup which makes it sweet. I like to add some lemon juice to the syrup as well which adds a tangy taste that is so iconic to the jalebi.

Traditionally jalebi is serve it piping hot with some milk or rabri poured on top. It taste divine.

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Make Sugar Syrup

1)Start by making the sugar syrup. Take sugar in a sauce pan.

2)Pour water in a sauce and bring it to a full boil.

3)Let the sugar melt completely. The syrup will get sticky stage. Now add in cardamom, saffron, food colour.

4)Add lemon juice and mix well.

5)Set this aside and keep it warm.

Make Jalebi Batter

6)Now make the batter. Take plain flour, cornstarch, baking soda, salt, food colour in a bowl and mix well.

7)Add in yogurt.

8)Add water and make it into a smooth batter.

9)Add in lemon juice.

10) The batter should be slightly runny than a dosa batter. Pourable consistency and not too runny because you should be able to pipe it on hot oil or ghee.

Frying Jalebi

11)Now take a piping bag and fill with the batter.

12)Heat oil or ghee in a shallow frying pan or skillet. Once the oil is hot, snip off the end from the piping bag and pipe small swirl into hot oil.

13)Leave space between each jalebi.

14)Let it fry on medium high heat for 2 minutes on each side so it gets crispy and golden.

Soaking syrup

15)Once the jalebis are fried, strain them and add them to the warm syrup. Let the jalebi sit in the syrup for 30 seconds.

16)Remove it from the syrup and serve warm or hot.

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