India

Jalebi

Name: Jalebi
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 150 g Flour; 2 tbsp Yoghurt; 200 g Sugar (for syrup); some of each Saffron & cardamom; 1 tsp Lemon juice; plenty Vegetable oil (for frying)

Crisp syrup spirals from South Asia

Jalebi are golden, spiral-shaped sweets, fried from a fermented batter and soaked at once in sugar syrup - crisp outside, juicy within.

Found across South Asia and the Middle East, they belong to festivals and street stalls; a touch of saffron and cardamom perfumes the syrup.

Servings4

Time40 min + proving

LevelMedium

Ingredients

Flour150 g
Yoghurt2 tbsp
Sugar (for syrup)200 g
Saffron & cardamomsome of each
Lemon juice1 tsp
Vegetable oil (for frying)plenty

★ = available authentic in the Asia Boutique

Preparation

Mix flour, yoghurt and water into a batter, let ferment a few hours.
Boil sugar with water, saffron and cardamom into a syrup.
Fill the batter into a squeeze bottle.
Pipe spirals into hot oil and fry crisp.
Dip at once briefly into the warm syrup, drain, serve.

Make it original

Saffron and cardamom for jalebi are in the Asia Boutique.

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