Jilebi (Various Recipes)

Recipe # 1

Ingredients:

All purpose flour- 1cup
Baking soda- 6 grams
Rice flour-1Tbsp
Yellow Food color-5-6drops
Red food color-2-3 drops
Yogurt- 1 oz
Water- enough to make dough(Start with 1/2 cup)
Sugar-2 cups
Saffron - pinch
Water-2 cups (for syrup)
Cardamom powder-1/4tsp
Oil-for deep frying

Method:

Mix all purpose flour, rice flour and baking soda together. Add water to yogurt and whisk until turns as smooth liquid, add all purpose flour and baking soda mix, combine together without any lumps. Dough should be thinner than dosa dough, and set aside and ferment over night. Heat 2 cups of water in a pot add sugar and let it boil until 1 string syrup comes. In one Tbsp spoon water soak saffron, add half in the syrup and remaining half in the dough which was fermented for over night. Add cardamom powder and food colors also in the syrup. Heat oil in a flat pan for deep frying, place dough in the ketchup dispenser, slowly twirl 3-4 times like chukli in hot oil. Do not fry until they turn into brown color. Keep syrup pot, next to frying pan transer the fried jilebis into the syrup dip them immediately with fork. Sugar syrup will absorb quicky, jilebis looks like a twirled straws. Take out the finished jilebis from the syrup and add next batch. Finish all the jelebis in the same manner. Finished jelebis serve hot as a dessert. Remaining jelebis should not store in a air tight container.

Recipe #2

Ingredients:

All purpose flour-1cup
Rice flour- 2Tbsp
Sugar -2cups
Fleischmann's dry east-1/2 pkt
Cardamom powder-1tsp
Yellow food color-5drops
Red food color-2drops
Water for syrup-2cups
Water for dough-3/4cup +2Tbsp
Salt-1pinch
Oil -for deep frying

Method:

Mix all purpose flour, rice flour and salt in a bowl. Dissolve yeast in a warm water and add to flour mix. Add remaining water also and make a little loose dough and set aside for 45 minutes. Mean while make a syrup like recipe #1, and remaining procedure also will be in the same manner like recipe#1.