Jalebis

Golden spirals soaked in sugar syrup

Ingredients

2 cups maida - all purpose flour (refined flour)

1/2 tsp. Baking powder

ghee (clarified butter) for frying

2 cups Sugar

A pinch of saffron

1 tsp. cardamom powder

Method

1.Mix maida (all purpose flour, plain flour) with baking powder, cardamom powder and water to made a batter of the consistency of thick cream.
2.Put it aside in a warm place to ferment for 24 hrs.
3.Dissolve 2 cups of sugar in 2 cups of water and boil till it becomes a syrup of one thread consistency.
4.Add saffron soaked in warm water.
5.Now heat Ghee(clarified butter) in a deep frying pan.
6.Fill up with batter in an ordinary plastic funnel or a coconut shell or a muslin cloth and pierce it from the bottom.
7.Now allow the batter to fall into continuos double circles .
8.Allow the jalebis to set and then turn over once.
9.When fried well, remove out of the pan and slip into the syrup , apply slight pressure so as to make them absorb the syrup.
10.After 5 minutes, take it out of the syrup , drain and serve hot.