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Gulab Jamun

Published: Nov 13, 2009 · Modified: Oct 25, 2019 ·

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Gulab Jamun, India’s traditional and milk based sweet dish mainly made with evaporated milk, sugar , flour with touch of cardamom , saffron and rose water.

 

One of the Indian sweets I am very fond of. It is milk based sweet, which I usually make from instant Gulab jamun packet available in the market. It is a easy 20 minutes effort, open and mix ingredients, fry it in oil and put in sugar syrup. I am happy to be part of Indian cooking challenge conducted and hosted by Srivalli. This month she has announced Gulab jamun as dish for the cooking challenge. Thanks for selecting this dish. I was happy to take up challenge, but at the same time skeptical about starting from the scratch. As always my dear hubby give me courage, to go ahead, and I decided to make Gulab jamun from scratch.
Srivalli had suggested 3 recipes one from Yum Blog, second from Indo and third from Alka . I followed Alka’s recipe to make Gulab jamun since it uses less quantity of milk, but she has not mentioned about the process of making khova, so I followed Indo’s recipe to make Khova. The final product was amazing and tasty and easily melts in your mouth. Usually hubby comes to home to have lunch, but yesterday he has some important meeting, and did not come for lunch. So I was able to start the preparation around lunch time. I started to boil the milk at 12.35 P.M and it lasted till 3.45 P.M at which point, I was able to get Khova/mawa. I had to do some routine things with my baby and house till 5.30. I again started making Jamuns around 5.45 and was able to fry them and put it sugar syrup by 6.30 P.M. The jamuns were ready enough for tasting around 8.30 P.M. Even though Jamuns are required to be (as the saying goes) in sugar syrup for at least 8 hours, we did not wait that long time for tasting the dish. Thanks to Alka for nice recipe of Gulab jamun.

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Gulab Jamun

Delicious Gulab Jamun made from scratch with homemade mava/khoya. Traditional sweet with touch of cardamom and rose water
Prep Time3 hrs 20 mins
Total Time3 hrs 20 mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: Gulab Jamun
Servings: 20
Calories: 191.67kcal

Ingredients

  • 6 cup Whole Milk to yield 250 gm (about 1 and ½ cup Khova/Mawa)
  • 1 1/2 cup Khova/ Unsweetened Mawa
  • 2 tsp All purpose flour
  • 1 tsp Corn flour
  • 2 Green cardamom crushed
  • Oil for shallow frying
  • Sugar Syrup:
  • 2 cup Sugar  This can be reduced as per taste
  • 2 cup Water
  • 2-3 pods Cardamom crushed
  • One spoon of milk optional, I didn’t used
  • 2 threads Saffron
  • 2 drops rose water

Instructions

  • o make Khova/mawa: Boil 6 cups of whole milk on a medium flame in a thick bottomed vessel with 2-3 stainless spoons in the bottom. The spoons are required to prevent the milk from burning. Once milk has boiled, reduce the flame and stir more often until the whole milk reduces to cottage cheese consistency. It took me around 3 hours to get Khova.
  • Next to make sugar syrup: Boil one and half cup water with 2 cups of sugar. Add a spoonful of milk to syrup (when it is boiling) to remove the impurities (impurities if any, will form a scum on surface). I did not use this step. Add 2-3 green cardamoms and 2 saffron strings to the syrup for strong flavor. Boil until you get just a tad sticky syrup. Gulab Jamun syrup is slightly dense and not too dilute as in Rasgulla. Strain the syrup, and add 2 drops of rosewater when syrup is slightly cooled. When sugar syrup is ready, we are ready to make Jamuns.
  • Making the Jamuns: In a bowl mix khova with all-purpose flour, corn flour and crushed cardamoms and knead until mixture form soft textured dough. From the dough, make small round balls which are slightly more than size of pebble (I made size of ping-pong ball). These small round balls will swell up after frying and soaking in syrup. Make sure that the surface of dough balls is really smooth without any cracks. If there is crack slightly wet your palms with water and roll the flour till absolutely smooth.
  • Now take a little oil (for frying) in preferably flat bottomed pan, and heat the oil. The Gulab jamuns are to be fried on LOW FLAME or else the surface will be browned while the core will remain uncooked.
  • Fry one or 2 Gulab jamuns at a time and always remember to STIR THE OIL with slotted spoon AND NOT TO TOUCH GULAB JAMUNS, which means keep swirling the oil without tossing or turning Gulab jamun.
  • Fry till light brown in color is obtained, remove and keep the jamun on tissue paper and repeat the procedure with rest of dough.
  • Finally soak the jamuns in COOL sugar syrup for a few hours, until they are all swelled up.
  • These can be stored in the same syrup till consumed.
  • You can enjoy it hot or cold, either way it is delicious.

Notes

Tips: Always remember two things while using rose water, do not add it while syrup is bubbling hot or on fire, and be particular about the quantity mentioned in every recipe, since even few drops of excess rosewater could lend a bitter taste to the final product. In order to prevent center of jamun from not cooking, some prefer to place an unsalted pistachio in the center of every Gulab jamun while making balls, that way the core of Gulab jamun is not left uncooked. If there are cracks in the balls before frying it will burst open while frying, in that case adding a bit of corn flour will surely help.

Nutrition

Calories: 191.67kcal | Carbohydrates: 28.09g | Protein: 5.55g | Fat: 6.67g | Saturated Fat: 4.07g | Cholesterol: 10.94mg | Sodium: 81.02mg | Potassium: 101.1mg | Fiber: 0.11g | Sugar: 23.66g | Vitamin A: 199.32IU | Vitamin C: 0.28mg | Calcium: 206.19mg | Iron: 0.1mg
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This is Swathi ( Ambujom Saraswathy) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread.  All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.

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  1. lata raja says

    November 15, 2009 at 9:27 pm

    The jamuns are looking delicious. your pictures are very inviting to try them again and again.

  2. Spice says

    November 16, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    Thanks for visiting my blog…..Nice step by step photos of Gulab Jamun here….i guess everybody in the blosphere is making these delicious looking sweets except me…..

  3. Hetzy says

    November 19, 2009 at 4:36 am

    WOW,Mouth watering..your gulab jamuns are perfect in shape.Great job swathi.Iam also interested in learning your other authentic kerala recipies.

  4. Mexico in my kitchen says

    January 23, 2011 at 4:27 am

    This is one of my favorite dessert when eating out at Indian restaurants. They look so nice and golden in your pictures.

    I live in a town with large Indian population, and there are several Indian markets where I can buy authentic ingredients.

    My son love the mango lassi but somehow making it at home doesn’t taste the same. Any secret ingredient on it? We use yogurt and mango pulp from the Indian store but we do not know what are we missing.

    Mely

  5. m says

    May 24, 2011 at 12:58 am

    My mom brought home what seemed like fried dough balls which a friend made. Unfortunately, we lost contact with the friend and no one seems to know what they’re called or how it’s made I was wondering if maybe there was something that you could think of that is similar. I was thinking that maybe it was gulab jamun that wasn’t soaked in syrup

    Also, thanks for posting some of these recipes. I look forward to trying them.

  6. jen says

    November 29, 2011 at 5:42 pm

    ok, I am not a cook , as MY DEMANDING JOB AND MY LAZY ASS won’t allow me to cook, i prefer ordering in as soon as i reach home.

    i usually check out indian food pics, and i judge the cook by their “GULAB jaman” . You are a PERFECT cook! cooking gravy, baking bread is sometjing that everyone can do – But if you can cook delicate things nicely – YOU ARE THE REAL COOK!

  7. Ramya Krishnamurthy says

    January 05, 2013 at 6:18 am

    mouthwatering jamuns.

  8. Turmeric n Spice says

    January 07, 2013 at 10:36 pm

    I don’t think I know anyone who can resist this sweet – bookmarking this recipe

  9. Candace says

    January 08, 2013 at 12:00 am

    I had something in a Greek restaurant one time that these sweet little beauties remind me of so much. I absolutely loved the ones that I had and I’m quite sure that I would enjoy these, as well. I’m going to be looking for these the next time that I eat at an Indian restaurant. I hope they have them. They look delicious!

  10. Shweta in the Kitchen says

    January 08, 2013 at 2:08 am

    Perfectly made irrestible gulab jamun…too good
    Happy New Year!!
    Blog – http://shwetainthekitchen.blogspot.com/
    Facebook Page – https://www.facebook.com/ShwetaintheKitchen

  11. Maha Gadde says

    January 08, 2013 at 2:47 am

    one of my favorite dessert..perfectly fried n soaked..juicy jamuns luks yumm

  12. pragathi says

    January 17, 2013 at 11:39 am

    Yummy gulab jamum.. My favourite dessert..

  13. The 21st Century Housewife© says

    January 25, 2013 at 5:15 pm

    What lovely sweets! I love traditional recipes like this.

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SwathiWelcome to Zesty South Indian Kitchen, I am Swathi ( Ambujom Saraswathy) who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. I am mom to two wonderful young kids, and has a wonderful loving husband who gives a up or down vote to the food . All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
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