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Gulab Jamun

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Ingredients: 1 cup powdered milk, 4 tbsp. all-purpose flour, 4 tbsp. yogurt, 2 tbsp (ghee) clarified butter, ½ tsp baking soda 4cups water, 4 cups sugar, few drops of rose essence, 1 tsp cardamom powder, few strands of saffron, oil for deep frying. Recipe: Make the syrup: Take sugar in a deep pan and add water, cardamom powder and saffron to it. Put the pan on stove and heat it up to the boiling point. Once the syrup boils take turn the stove off. Make the Gulab Jamun: Take powder milk, all-purpose flour, baking soda and mix it well. Now add yogurt and Clarified butter and make evenly mixed dough. Yogurt works as binding factor and Clarified butter brings consistency to it. After making dough keep it in a bowl for 5-10 minutes. Now put oil on the stove at low heat. Make small even balls of the dough to fry. Now before frying them make sure the oil is on low heat otherwise it will not fry properly the outside will be fried and the inside will be raw. When put the balls in

Jalebies

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Jalebies were invented in India during the time of Mughals. Mughals used to call Zlebia. They used to make it during the festival Ramadan. Ingredients: 1 ½ cup of all purpose flour, ½ tsp cardamom powder, 1 tsp rapid rise yeast, 1 tbsp of corn starch, 1 ½ tsp oil, 1 tbsp yogurt, 2 cups of warm water, 1 cup of sugar, pinch of saffron, 1tsp lime syrup, oil to fry. Recipe: Take all purpose flour and add dry spices in it. Add cardamom powder rapid rise yeast and corn starch to the all purpose flour and mix it properly. Now add yogurt, 1 cup of warm water, 1 tsp oil. Mix the mixture properly so that all the clusters get dissolved. Put the bowl in warm water, cover it and put it in oven without starting it or put in incubator temperature at 30®C for 30 minutes. Meanwhile heat the 1 cup of water at medium heat and add 1 cup of sugar in it to make sugar syrup. Make sure to make sugar syrup proportion should be 50-50. Also add pinch of saffron and allow it to cook for 15 minutes. Keep