Home Made Milk Gulab Jamun

Home Made Milk Gulab Jamun

Soft, spongy and melt in mouth gulab jamuns drenched in delicately flavored sugar syrup is a traditional sweet in India. There are many ready-made Instant mixes available in market but no one comes even close to the taste of homemade gulab jamuns made from traditional mawa or khoya with this recipe. But, this recipe milk gulab  jamun is that it is directly made from milk rather than khoya  . It is made with simple and easy ingredients. Made with milk, flour, green cardamom powder, baking soda and sugar syrup, this dessert recipe is absolutely exquisite and makes you crave for more. What makes this sweet delight different from the regular gulab jamun. Make it from scratch today and shower your taste buds with its unforgettable taste.I made this Sweet for My son inlaw's birthday and for our wedding day.

 

Ingredients:

Milk- ½ litre

Maida- 1 tbsp

Sugar- 11/2 cups

Water-2 cups

Cardamom powder- ¼ tsp

Baking Soda-2 pinch

Ghee/Oil- For Frying

Saffron- pinch

 

Method:

1.Take sugar,saffron ,cardamom powder and 2 cups of water in a pan, boil for 15 minutes on medium heat. Till you feel the stickiness in the syrup. Keep stirring

 

2.In a deep-bottomed pan over medium flame and add milk in it. Let the milk come to a boil. Keep stirring the milk while it boils.

3.When the volume of the milk has reduced and it has become thick, take it off the flame.

 

4.Transfer it in a bowl. Once it cools down, add flour, baking soda in this bowl. Using your hands, mix it well and turn in it into a soft dough.

 

5.Now, take small portions from this dough and make small balls of it. Place a pan with ghee/oil over medium flame.

 

6.When the oil is hot enough, add the balls in it and let these cook. Fry them until they turn brown in color. 

7.Once done, then add in the hot sugar syrup. Now cover the sugar syrup pan and simmer for 8-10 minutes on low heat..It increases in size when it soaks the sugar syrup.

8.Dip them nicely in the syrup and serve these GulabJamun Warm or cold  to enjoy!

Arabic Dates and Honey Cake

The theme for this month's Home Bakers Challenge, a monthly baking group started by Priya, is Arabic Bakes. Rafeeda of The Big Sweet Tooth suggested both savory and sweet bakes for this challenge. On her choices, today I baked this dateand Honeycake. I followed Raffeda's instructions and instead of eggs  I used milk. It tasted so heavenly and its so good and My family loved it. Thank you Rafeeda AR for the wonderful Arabian recipes

This Arabic Date and Honey Cake is Easy , delicious, unique and The half-baked cake absorbs all the syrup, turning the cake super soft and moist. This is a rich, delicious and filling cake. We  can served it with coffee/tea.

Ingredients:

All Purpose flour-1 cup

Salted Butter-1/2 cup  

Eggs-3   (Instead of eggs I used ½ cup milk)

Brown sugar-1/4 cup 

White sugar-1/4 cup

 Vanilla essence-1/2 tsp 

 Baking powder-1/2 tsp 

For Topping:

Butter-1/2 cup 

White sugar-1/4 cup

Brown sugar-1/4 cup 

Honey-1/3 cup

Sliced almonds-1/2 cup 

Cinnamon powder-1/2 tsp

Pitted dates-8to10

  Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 C Grease cake  pan or line with parchment paper.I used parchment Paper.

2. Beat the, white sugar, brown sugar,milk and vanilla together until light and fluffy.

3.Gently pour in the melted butter and whisk until well combined.

4. Sift all-purpose flour, salt and baking powder right into the bowl. Mix well to combine.

5. Pour into the prepared pan and bake 10 minutes.

6. While cake is baking prepare the topping. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat.

7.Add the sugars, honey, almonds, and cinnamon. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.

8. Pour the topping gently on the cake and return the cake to the oven. Bake for another 15-20 minutes or until completely baked.

9. While pouring the syrup on the cake, start from the sides and pour slowly. The syrup will be still bubbling, but it will thicken once cooled.

10.Let the cake cool in the pan completely before removing it out of the pan.Serve it with tea/ coffee