Sunday, November 15, 2009

Indo's Gulab Jamuns for Indian Cooking Challenge


Having tried two of the three chosen recipes for the October edition of Indian Cooking Challenge for deepavali, I was planning to try the third given recipe sometime soon. Least did I expect it would be this soon. Srivalli, obliging to requests from members extended the post date to the 16th of November. That gave me a chance to work on this recipe and post it too.

Indo of Daily musings has given a very beautiful pictorial of her grandma making these jamuns for her. Prepare yourself for a tutorial here. I recommend you read her post, I am not copying it here.
With an overdose of yummy gulabjamuns, I did not want to use the whole recipe given by Indo.
I reduced 1 litre of milk and used one fourth of the rest of the ingredients as well. I had 20 gulab jamuns.
Three recipes, varying in quantity of ingredients, yet all three worked well, though I felt that the maida was a bit more in Indo's recipe. The gulab jamuns swelled in the oil while frying, so they absorbed the syrup well too.

This forced me to look up my mother's note book and I found her's almost similar to Indo's recipe! Later during a telephone conversation she told me that in her recipe the quantity of maida was more and she was advised to reduce it to achieve best results. The Baking soda she had mentioned was way less, may have been the reason to reduce the maida. I presume that might be a point of note.
Ironically all these days I never looked up my S.Meenakshi Ammal book. I fancied checking her recipe too. Alas ! What I found was neatly written in my own hand - an update. I have mentioned how much khova I achieved reducing 2 litres of milk and how much maida I had used, the exact measure of bi-carbonate of soda and more! I have written down how well I had to knead the khova initially, almost as you would knead the flour before adding the maida:(
All this dated way back in 2001! Deepavali -Johor!
Grrrr...gritting! Now I have to try my version soon :)






22 comments:

  1. Gulab jamuns are my favourite . Perfect pictures for the event

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  2. Yummy jamuns..Looks delicious.

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  3. They indeed look so delicious, Lataji i could see the weighing scale next to the Jamun Bowl. Is it a warning to practice portion control to watch out when preparing this lovely dish? Just kidding.

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  4. Wow.. yummy jamun.. pic looks perfect and yumm :)

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  5. Great Lataji...! Gotta learn a lot from you :) Btw, these 20 added to the already made 60 jamuns??? :D

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  6. Looks so delicious, mouthwatering dear!

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  7. Wow superb spongy jamuns, feel like inviting myself to ur place...yumm!

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  8. Nice juicy and mouth watering gulab jamuns.

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  9. These jamuns look so tempting and perfect...

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  10. Hmm I ve seen quiet a few Gulab jamun popping in blogosphere today! very spongy!

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  11. Gulab Jamuns looks perfect


    swathi

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  12. Akka, Wow,you tried all three recipes and now marching to your own recipe... Great going.

    Jamuns looks soft and very tempting.

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  13. they looks so yum yum yum...whats with the weighing scale...is that an omnious sign of whts to come if we eat too many!

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  14. You have tremendous amount of patience Lata ji... to try just the instant gulab jamun mix is very difficult for me :-)

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  15. These look very tempting. I have never made gulab jamuns from scratch. Now I should!

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  16. Now my mom wants to try this version... looks great akka!

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  17. Lataji please collect your award from my blog! :)

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  18. This looks like a delicious dessert!

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