How to make Gulab Jamun with Khoya?

Now a days making Gulab Jamuns with ready mix has become common. But we can find a huge difference in taste if we make them from the scratch. My grand mother and my aunt still make these for me if I ask for Jamuns. I got this recipe from my aunt and here goes the step by step procedure for making these delicious Khoya Jamuns.

Time of Preparation : 50 minutes
No of pieces : 30

Ingredients:

• Khoya – 1 cup (homemade or store bought)
• Maida / All Purpose Flour) – 1/2 cup
• Baking Soda – a pinch
• Milk – few tbsp
• Oil – For Frying
• Ghee 3 tbsp

For Sugar Syrup:

• Sugar – 1 1/2 cup
• Water – 1 1/2 cup
• Cardamom – 4 to 5 (crushed)

Method of Preparation:

1. Sieve the maida and baking soda and mix with khoya slowly.
2. Add few tbsp of milk for mixing.
3. Mix completely to get a smooth dough.
4. Fill the vessel with cold water till the dough is completely immersed.
5. Leave it for 20 to 30 minutes.
6. In the meantime start making the sugar syrup.
7. Mix equal quantity of sugar and water and add the cardamom and boil it.
8. Turn off the heat when the sugar syrup becomes sticky (before the kambi padam).
9. Now strain the excess water from the dough and mix the dough again.
10. The dough will become so soft.
11. Now divide the dough to approximately 30 equal parts and roll them to smooth round balls.(If needed apply little ghee on the palms while rolling)
12. Now heat oil in a kadai (mix the 3 tbsp of ghee to the oil) in medium flame.
13. Fry the Jamun balls in medium flame till we get brown color.
14. If we use high flame, the outer layer will become brown soon and inside it won’t be done.
15. So we should fry like how we fry for Ulundhu Vadai.
16. Put the fried balls immediately to the sugar syrup.
17. Cool them and store them in an airtight container.

Note:

• Immersing the dough in water makes a lot of difference in the dough. The becomes so soft.
• As soon as we fry the jamuns, we should put them in sugar syrup. Else they wont absorb the syrup properly.