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Milk Powder Gulab Jamun

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Ingredients

Ingredients	Quantity
Milk Powder (135 grams)	1 cup
Full cream milk	1/2 cup
unsalted butter (55 grams)	1/4 cup
pieces cashew nuts	10-12
Cardamom	7-8
Pistachios	10-12
Maida (refined flour)	4 tsp
Ghee for frying gulab jamun	4-5 tsp
For Sugar Syrup
Sugar	(400 grams) or 2 cups

Servings

Serving	5-7
Preparation Time	20 Mins
Cooking Time	45 Mins

Method

• For preparing Mawa, take butter in pan and melt it; add milk and mix well. Cook it on low flame. Now add milk powder and stir constantly till the mixture attains the texture of Mawa. Once, Mawa is ready, turn off the flame and take it out in a bowl.
• Cut cashew nuts and pistachios in fine pieces. Cut cashew nuts and pistachios in fine pieces.
• Peel the cardamom and make a coarse powder. Keep half the cardamom powder for adding in sugar syrup.
• Take rest of the cardamom powder, diced cashews and pistachios, 1 tbsp mawa, 1-2 tsp milk and mix all the ingredients to prepare the stuffing.
• Put sugar and 1 cup water in a bowl and cook until sugar dissolves completely.
• Put sugar and 1 cup water in a bowl and cook until sugar dissolves completely. Now check the sugar syrup. For this drop 1-2 drops on a plate. With help of your thumb and finger check the syrup. It should be gooey in texture.
• Formation of one thread or two thread is not necessary. Sugar syrup is now ready, turn off the flame. Add cardamom powder in the syrup and mix well.
• Place the Mawa in a plate. Add 4 tsp maida and knead until it gets smooth in texture.Place the Mawa in a plate. Add 4 tsp maida and knead until it gets smooth in texture. If the mixture appears to be dry add small amount of milk into it. Add little milk at a time with help of a spoon and knead well. Within 6-7 mins mawa will get soft.
• Preheat oil in a pan. Take little amount of mixture and make a round ball and place it in pan for frying.
• Instead of turning over the gulab jamun, you can also pour oil over the gulab jamun with the help of ladle. Instead of turning over the gulab jamun, you can also pour oil over the gulab jamun with the help of ladle.
• Fry until it gets golden brown in color.
• If the gulab jamun is prepared easily, you can use this mixture for making more but if the gulab jamun splits in oil, then the mixture cannot be used for making gulab jamun. Add 2-3 tsp maida in mawa, knead well and again check the mixture.
• If the gulab jamun is ready, use the mixture for making rest. Place 1/4 tsp stuffing on it and make a round ball covering the stuffing.
• Take little amount of mixture, roll and then flatten it. Place 1/4 tsp stuffing on it and make a round ball covering the stuffing. Keep the ready gulab jamun on plate and prepare the rest likewise.
• Place 3-4 gulab jamuns in oil and fry. Keep in mind that while frying the gulab jamun doesn’t come in contact with the ladle.
• Take out the fried gulab jamun and place on plate with napkin paper. After 1-2 minutes, put in sugar syrup. Likewise prepare all gulab jamun.
• Let the gulab jamun drench in sugar syrup for 5-6 hours so that they get apt sweetness.

Recipe Tips

• Try a different version of one of India’s most loved sweet, Gulab Jamun. So, if you have milk powder at home, you can easily turn it into Mawa and make those delicious, soft and sweet Gulab Jamuns.
• Don’t add too much maida in milk powder mawa, as doing so can make gulab jamun hard.
• Before frying the gulab jamun, test them. For this fry one gulab jamun in oil, if it splits then add some maida into the mixture.
• If the gulab jamuns are getting hard, add 1-2 tsp milk into the mixture.
• Make sure while frying gulab jamun, oil is medium hot.