Sweet Milk Balls (gulab Jamun)

Total Time: 2 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 cup thickened milk (khoya)
• 1 cup panir (chena or spoiled milk with lemon juice)
• 1/2 tablespoon baking soda
• 1/2 tablespoon baking powder
• 2 tablespoons cornflour
• 2 tablespoons cardamom powder
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 cups water
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 -3 cardamom pods
• 2 cups canola oil

Recipe

• 1 to make khoya:.
• 2 take 2 and half cup of half-and-half in wok, and reduce it till the thickest consistency without turning brown.
• 3 to make chena:.
• 4 take 2 and half cup of 1/2 and 1/2 milk and spoil it with lemon juice.
• 5 drain out the water and put the milk consistency in a cheese cloth and press it with some heavy weight so that all the remaining water comes out.
• 6 it takes about 60 minutes.
• 7 now mix all the ingredients for the sweet balls.
• 8 make into small walnut size balls.
• 9 on medium heat (never on high heat) deep fry them like dark brown in colour.
• 10 to make sugar syrup.
• 11 mix the water and sugar in a saucepan large enough to fit all the fried sweet balls.
• 12 boil the mix until the sugar dissolves and keep boiling for 5 minutes.
• 13 put the cardamom pods in the sugar syrup.
• 14 then slowly drop down the fried milk balls.
• 15 don't make mess by dropping much fried balls in smaller sauce pan.
• 16 this is because after soaking the sugar syrup the milk balls expands.
• 17 boil it for 15 minutes on medium heat,all the milk balls will expand to double its size soaking the sugar syrup.
• 18 serve it when it comes to the room temperature.
• 19 note:-do not use whole milk or skimmed milk.
• 20 only use half-and-half milk.