Serving: 30 pieces |Type: Dessert
Ingredients:
Readymade Gulab Jamun mix | -1 Box (500g) |
Mixed nuts and dried fruits | -½ cup (chopped) |
Sugar | -as per instruction |
Water | -as per instruction |
Rose essence | -¼ tsp |
Oil | -for frying |
Milk | -for kneading |
Method:
- Take a gulab jamun mix in the bowl, add very little milk and knead it into soft dough.
- Meanwhile heat a deep pot, add sugar and water and bring it to a boil.
- Boil the sugar syrup for 10 to 15 minutes in medium flame, just like a simple syrup.
- Take it off heat and add the rose essence.
- Also chop your preferred nuts and dried fruits (I used Almonds, cashews and dates) and keep it aside.
- Take the dough and roll it into a golf ball sized balls and stuff it with the mixed nuts and dried fruits.
- Then close the dough and pat it flat.
- Take a pan heat with oil on medium flame and then fry the pieces in low heat.
- In each batch, place 5 to 6 pieces and fry it.
- Then take out the fried makkan peda from the oil and soak it in the sugar syrup.
- Allow it soak overnight.
- Serve it warm as it is or with ice cream.
Note:
- While frying the jamoons be careful with the flame. Otherwise very quickly it will cook outside, inside it won’t cook.
- You can see the direction on the readymade pocket and follow the measurement.