Monday 9 November 2015

Instant Jilebi

Wishing you all a very very Happy Diwali!!!
What else to make for Diwali......
Ingredients

All Purpose flour/Maida: 1/2 Cup
Corn flour: 1 Tea Spoon
Vinegar: 1/4 Tea Spoon
Yogurt: 1 Tea Spoon
Eno Fruit Salt: 1/2 Tea Spoon
Sugar: 3/4 Cup
Water: 1/3 Cup
Salt: A Small Pinch
Lime Juice: 1/2 Table Spoon
Permitted Food Color: 1 Pinch
Oil / Ghee: For Deep Frying

Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Method

Combine together maida, corn flour, salt and  yogurt
To this add vinegar, food color and little water and make a batter. The batter should have a  flowing consistency but it should be thick as well.
Add sugar and water to a pan and let it boil.  Once it boils add lime juice.  Remove any dirt that floats on the sugar syrup and let it boil until it reaches one thread consistency
To know more about one thread consistency refer notes.
To the jilebi batter add fruit salt and mix well
Pour this batter to a squeeze bottle or piping bag
Pour oil/ghee to a pan and heat it well, Once the oil is heated well reduce the flame to medium
Now make jilebi by piping the batter to the oil in round spiral shape
Fry it for a minute or two on each side until it becomes crisp and then drain off the excess oil and put it to the sugar syrup.
Keep it in the sugar syrup for a minute and then take it out of the syrup
Enjoy your home made jilebi...
Note:
The oil should be hot, but it should never fume.
The batter consistency is important.
Recipe courtesy You Tube.
How to check one thread consistency of sugar syrup
When the sugar syrup is boiling dip a wooden spatula in the syrup and then remove it
Wait for a few seconds and then touch the sugar syrup on the spatula with your forefinger and then slowly touch the forefinger with your thumb and then pull apart gently
If you see a single thread is formed without breaking then the sugar syrup has achieved the correct texture

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