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| Aloo (Potato) Gulab Jamun |
My family is a big fan of Gulab Jamun. But we never prepared it from the scratch. We always made use of Instant Mix. Last week for my husband’s birthday, i planned to prepare gulab jamun from the scratch. I referred a cookbook for aloo jamun and tried it. No words to express as it was too delicious and no one believed that it was made from potatoes. Lets move on to check the recipe,
Ingredients :
- 2 big potatoes – boiled and mashed
- 1/6 cup maida (all purpose flour)
- 1 tsp ghee / clarified butter
- a pinch of baking soda
To Prepare Sugar Syrup :
- 2-3 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- few drops of rose essence
- a pinch of cardamom seeds powder
Method :
- Boil the potatoes and peel outer skin. Mash the potatoes and keep aside. Sieve Maida and keep aside.
- Combine ghee and baking soda in a mixing bowl. Add maida to it and mix well. Add mashed potatoes and knead to smooth dough without adding water. Add more maida if needed and keep aside for 10 mins.
- Grease your palm with little oil and make small lemon sized balls of the dough. To prepare sugar syrup, take a deep kadhai or pan & add sugar and 1 cup water. Heat it over low flame till sugar gets dissolved. The syrup should be of sticky consistency.
- Heat oil/ghee in a heavy bottomed kadai or pan for deep frying. Keep it in medium flame and make sure the oil is not too hot otherwise the balls wont get cooked from inside. Only the outer layer will get cooked.
- Fry 5 to 6 balls at a time and once it turns golden brown switch it to low flame and fry the remaining balls on low flame. Remove the balls from the heat and put it in sugar syrup. Let it soak for 2-3 hours and then serve.
Thats pretty one : i am hearing this first time !
Oh Preeti… You rock dear… simply superb… awesome pictures…
Creative and never heard something new to me 🙂
Lovely Preethi, I love it…
too good.. sooperb
that's a unique gulab jamun… i hope i will be able to try soon… very simple also..:)
Looks super delicious preeti!!! Easy to make and definitely healthy than those instant mixes!!!
Delicious!!!! Like it……….
drooling !!!
so tempting.. Preeti I wish I stay in Chennai so that I can visit u often
Its so creative and in fact, I like the idea of using potatoes. A perfect recipe for me to be tried out. I am sure and I do agree that the taste must have been heavenly.
thats a delicious version of making gulab jamuns. once i made gulab jamuns with sweet potatoes and they were not so good. loved the pics.
In Bengal we do this with sweet red potato. This is a very interesting take. The gulab jamuns look melt in mouth soft.
soft jamuns…Loved the last two pics 🙂
Gulab jamun made with potatoes is new to me da.. But looks super delicious..
it looks delicious .. using of potato is really nice..i have book marked it
Delicious. We make sweet potato jamun following the same way.
That's a mouthwatering potato gulab jamun. Even we prepare such sweets from time to time.
Deepa
Lovely gulab jamun. Pass me here 🙂
Bengalis makes jamun with sweet potatoes and potatoes, but am yet to make these cuties at home, looks wonderful sis.
Love your jamun with potatoes.. Delicious..
Potatoes, very unique and looks good. Goto give this a try Preethi.
Delicious and yummy.
ah so good…
I haven't eaten gulab jamun before but I am sure I will like it 🙂
Oh pree you are great..Such a innovative recipe dear..looks inviting…
very interesting..awesome clicks…
nice one . thank u for sharing
love this deliciously interesting sweet
very creative recipe ! am surely trying this !
tempting jamun dear, will try this version 🙂
indeed tempting and new stuff I have seen let me try this out at this week end.
Instant Mix