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Gulab jamun is one of the favorite sweet dishes.
This sweet dish is prepared for almost every party.
Gulab jamun is prepared with mawa but at few places it’s not easily available.
Today we will use milk powder for making gulab jamun.
Gulab jamun made with milk powder taste same as that made with mawa.
Let’s start with the procedure of making milk powder gulab jamun.
For this we have used
Milk powder (non fatty) – 1 cup (135 grams)
Milk (full cream) – ½ cup
Butter (unsalted) – ¼ cup (55 grams)
These ingredients will be used for making mawa.
For stuffing
Cashews – 10-12
Green Cardamom – 7-8 pieces
Pistachios – 10-12 pieces
These ingredients will be used for making stuffing.
Sugar – 400 grams
Plain flour – ½ cup
Ghee – for frying gulab jamun
For making milk powder gulab jamun we will first make mawa.
Preheat a pan. Add butter and allow it to melt.
Now add milk into it and mix well. Reduce the flame.
Add milk powder and stir constantly to mix well.
Cook until it gets smooth and thick in texture on low flame.
Mawa is ready.
Now we will make sugar syrup for gulab jamun.
Add sugar in any utensil.
For two cups of sugar add 1 cup of water.
Stir the sugar at regular intervals and allow melting completely.
Meanwhile cut pistachios, cashews and make powder of green cardamom.
Make 10-12 pieces of one cashew.
Likewise make fine and thin slices of pistachios.
Check sugar syrup.
Sugar has dissolved completely.
For checking take 1-2 drops of syrup in a bowl.
With help of your thumb and finger check the consistency of sugar like this.
Just check for gooey texture like honey.
Sugar syrup is ready, turn of the flame.
Peel cardamom and make grind coarsely.
Mix cardamom powder with diced dry fruits and add rest in sugar syrup.
Take out mawa in a plate to add maida into it.
Add 1 tsp mawa in stuffing and mix well for binding.
Mix four tsp maida in mawa.
Knead until smooth.
Add milk into mawa if it appears too dry.
Add 2 tsp milk into mawa and mash nicely.
If required, add more milk into mawa.
Mash and knead really well until smooth.
We have used 7 tsp milk for kneading mawa.
We have also added mawa in stuffing and 1 tsp milk into it for binding.
Take little amount of mawa and bind like this.
Firstly we will fry one gulab jamun to check it doesn’t split while frying.
Make round ball like this and heat the ghee on other hand.
Place the gulab jamun in ghee for frying.
Make sure ghee is not too hot or medium hot
keep it warm aptly.
Flame should be low.
Now place gulab jamun in ghee for frying.
With help of ladle pour ghee over the gulab jamun like this.
Flip the side of gulab jamun by constantly stirring the ghee.
Gulab jamun is ready.
Now we will make stuffed gulab jamuns.
Take out in a plate with absorbent paper.
After few minutes, soak it in sugar syrup.
Now we will make 4-5 gulab jamuns.
Take little amount of dough and flatten it on palm.
Put little amount of stuffing in it.
Cover the stuffing like this from all sides.
Now roll it with your hands.
We have made four gulab jamuns. Now fry them.
Place them in wok for frying.
Pour ghee over gulab jamuns like this and fry until they turn dark brown in color.
Once gulab jamun turn dark brown in color, take them out in a plate.
Place these gulab jamuns in sugar syrup.
Likewise prepare all gulab jamuns.
All gulab jamuns are fried, turn off the flame.
Soak the gulab jamuns in sugar syrup for 5-6 hours so that they get apt sweetness.
Milk powder gulab jamun are ready.
It’s very easy to prepare these gulab jamun.
But take note of few things.
After preparing the dough, check whether gulab jamun can be prepared with it or not.
For this make one gulab jamun without stuffing and fry in medium hot ghe on low flame.
If it gets brown in color, that shows dough is apt and we can use it for making rest of the gulab jamuns with stuffing.
But if gulab jamun splits will frying, that means dough cannot be used.
To rectify it add 2-3 maida into the mawa and mix well.
If gulab jamun is getting hard after frying, then add 1-2 tsp milk in mawa and mix well.
Sugar syrup should have one-thread consistency.
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