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Festival Recipes Jangri
It is also known as Amrithi. This is Diwali special dish.
Black gram dal - 1 cup (200 gm)
Rice - 1 table spoon
Sugar - 2 cups (500 gm)
Ghee - 1/2 Kg
Kesari (Colour) powder - 1/2 tea spoonMethod
- Wash and soak the dal and rice in water for 15 minutes
- Drain the water and grind well for one hour without adding water;just sprinkle little water
- Mix kesari powder with the batter
- Prepare thick sugar syrup with sugar and water and add kesari powder
- Heat ghee in a shallow pan on low fire
- Take a big ball of the batter in a thick cloth with a small hole (Mouth of the hole should be stitched along the edges as in a button hole)
- Hold the cloth bundle in the hand and press the cloth bundle so that the batter comes out
- Make a circular motion of your hand while pressing the bundle so that the batter drops into the ghee in pan on fire
- After making one round (circle)keep on making small roundsalong the sides of the center so that you get small coils around the center
- After completing small coils make one big circle on top of the jangiri and stop pressing
- Prepare 4-5 Jangiris in hot ghee and allow to fry in low fire till they turn golden and crisp
- Remove them from ghee and drop them into hot syrup and keep aside
- Remove the Jangiris after they absorb the syrup and serve hot
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