Sweet potato gulab jamun recipe
Sweet potato gulab jamun recipe, easy to make with simple ingredients - No khoya no milk powder. With step by step pictures for easy learning
Servings: 25 Jamuns
Ingredients
- 2 Sweet potato Yellow variety
- 1 tablespoon All purpose flour Maida
- 1 Pinch Cooking soda
- 1 teaspoon Cream/ milk
- 1 Pinch Salt
- ¾ cup Sugar
- ¾ cup Water
- 1 Cardamom
- Saffron – Few strands optional
Instructions
- Pressure cook / steam the sweet potato without adding water to the sweet potato. I only add water in the cooker and keep the washed, cut sweet potato in a vessel without water inside the vessel.
- After 3 whistles, Keep aside for 20 mins for cooling down and becoming dry.
- Peel off the skin, mash and knead with cream/ milk, all purpose flour, salt and sodium bi crab. It should be smooth dough.
- Make sugar syrup by boiling sugar with water for 8 minutes in medium flame. Add saffron, cardamom and mix well.
- Mean while roll small equal sized balls out of the dough we prepared.
- Grease your hands with ghee every time you shape the balls.
- Heat oil in a kadai, when it is hot, put the flame to low and drop the jamun into it. You can fry few at a time, depending upon the oil you take.
- Put the flame to medium and keep turning every now and then to ensure even cooking.
- Once deep golden in colour, drain in paper towel, repeat to finish all the jamuns.
- Give 2 minutes standing time and then add it to the sugar syrup (Warm/ hot) . See notes for some important things to remember.
Notes
- Give at least 3-4 hours standing time before eating the sweet for best results.
- Do not add hot jamuns in hot syrup. It will end up in shrunken jamuns. Also more liquid content in the dough will give unshaped jamuns.
- Adding more cooking soda will make jamun dis-integrate in oil while frying.
- If you feel the dough is very sticky at any point in case the cream or milk is added more, dont panic, just add more maida.
- Adding salt is optional, but without salt it will be too sweet. Dont add more than a small pinch.
- Make sure the sugar syrup is not watery. You can add a drop of rose essence if you like that flavour.
- If you need cream, then collect little from when you boil milk.