Fatafat Jalebi

Jalebi is something we used to relish as kids. When visiting grandparents, breakfast normally comprised of garma-garam (piping hot) jalebis and samosas. Unfortunately, 15 years in the US and have not been able to find any store selling the kind of jalebi that I like, until I stumbled on the recipe below. This takes me back to my childhood and hoping you will go to your favorite place too after trying this.

Maida (flour) - 1 cup
Cornflour - 1 tsp
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
Yogurt - 1/4 cup
Water - 1/2 cup or as needed
Yellow color - a pinch

For Chashni (sugar syrup):
Sugar - 2 cups
Water - 1 cup
Cardamom - 2
Saffron - a few strands

Restaurant style ketchup dispenser

• Sift together Maida, baking powder, bakinf soda, and cornflour
• Now add yogurt along with the yellow color and mix it nicely
• Add water and whisk nicely so that there are no lumps
• Pour the prepared mixture in the ketchup dispenser.
• In a separate pan, combine sugar and water and place it on heat. Add cardamom, saffron and bring to a boil making a 1 thread consistency. 
• Make jalebis by pressing the dispenser lightly in a pan of heated oil
• Oil temperature is very important when frying these, the oil should be on medium heat. It took me a couple of tries to understand this.
• Once Jalebis are fried, put them in the sugar syrup.
• Let is soak for a few minutes
• Garma-garam jalebis are ready to enjoy