We have 2 birthdays in January and February within a span of 15days. So before ordering cakes for birthday became a trend we always bought gulab jamun as the birthday sweet for 2 reasons. 1 it is not prepared always, so special sweet. 2nd most brands have buy 1 get 1 free offer so it was perfect for us to use in 2 occasions 😁 since it is read the instructions on the pack and prepare business its always given to me but I always messed up! Jamuns never became perfect until 1 day when my mom wasn’t well and I prepared it in hurry. That day I learnt few of my mistakes and corrected them. When we prepare something in hurry usually it becomes tasty as perfect right?
Ingredients required-
- Gulab Jamun mix – 1pack
- Water – about 1/2 glass
- Oil – for deep frying
- Sugar – 2cup
- Water – 2 cup
- Cardamom- 1
Method of preparation-
- Empty the entire pack into a vessel and add water little by little while mixing
- Continue till you get a soft dough. Make sure to add enough water else jamun will crack while frying if it is too dry.
- Heat the oil and once hot, turn flame to medium
- Add few jamuns and fry with continuous stirring. If flame is high it will turn brown from outside and will not cook inside.
- Keep the fried jamuns for cooling
- Meanwhile take the water and sugar to prepare a sugar syrup. Cook for about 15min till you get the syrup. Add crushed cardamom.
- Once this is ready allow to cool.
- Finally mix cooled jamun to cooled sugar syrup and allow to rest for about 1hr. Cooling is important to prevent cracking of jamuns. I always used to add hot jamun to hot sugar syrup and that was biggest mistake.
- Garnish with chopped almonds while serving.
Note :
You can fry the jamoons in ghee but if you are planning to refrigerate, they might turn little hard.