How much cooking time?

35 min — 20 min prep, 15 min cooking.

Amritsari Jalebi

Name: Amritsari Jalebi
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Punjab Indian
Ingredients: 2piece Cardamom; 220g All-purpose Flour; 100g sugar; salt; 180g Ghee

Thick crispy jalebis soaked in sugar syrup. Amritsar halwai shops serve them piping hot with rabri.

Time 35 min · Serves 4 · 695 kcal · Amritsar, Punjab

Ingredients

Garnish

Cardamom — 2 piece (ground)

Main

All-purpose Flour — 220 g (ground)
sugar — 100 g (whole)
salt (optional) (whole)

Tempering

Ghee — 180 g

Method

Mix maida with a pinch of salt and enough water into a thick, smooth batter -- thicker than usual, for the characteristic thick Amritsari spirals; cover and ferment at room temperature for 24-36 hours until slightly sour and bubbly.
Whisk the fermented batter well before frying.
Prepare the sugar syrup: dissolve sugar in water, bring to a boil with crushed cardamom, and simmer to one-string consistency; keep warm.
Heat pure ghee in a wide, shallow pan on medium flame -- Amritsari halwais fry jalebi exclusively in ghee for its distinct richness.
Pipe the thick batter into the hot ghee in tight overlapping spirals to form thick jalebi coils.
Fry until deep golden and crisp on both sides, turning once.
Lift straight from the ghee and dip immediately into the warm sugar syrup for 30-60 seconds; serve piping hot.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Amritsari Jalebi?: 695 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 35 min — 20 min prep, 15 min cooking.

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