Name: Jeelipi
Prep time: 10 h
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 10 h 45 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Bengali
Ingredients: Rice 2 cups; Urad daal 1 cup; Few drops of yellow food color(Optional); Sugar 2 cups; Water 2 cups; Rose water -2 tablespoon; Fennel seeds 1 tablespoon; Cardamom powder -1 teaspoon; Vegetable oil for deep frying; Ghee 2 tablespoon

Bengali Jeelipi Or Jalebi Recipe

Jalebi or Jeelipi is a very popular Indian sweet. It can be served cold or hot. It is made by deep frying a batter in pretzel or circular shape and soaked into sugar syrup. This sweet considers as a "Celebration Sweet" in India. Here it is considered as a famous "Ratha-Yatra" special sweet.

Details

Yields

10 serving(s)

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Time

Preperation
600 Minutes

Cooking
45 Minutes

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Cooking Level
Difficult

Meal Type
Dessert

Cuisine
Bengali

Ingredients of Jeelipi

Rice 2 cups
Urad daal 1 cup
Few drops of yellow food color(Optional)
Sugar 2 cups
Water 2 cups
Rose water -2 tablespoon
Fennel seeds 1 tablespoon
Cardamom powder -1 teaspoon
Vegetable oil for deep frying
Ghee 2 tablespoon

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Directions to make Jeelipi in steps

Steps

Soak the daal and rice separately in water for 5/6hrs. Grind the rice and daal separately (remember do not warm the daal or rice while grinding them. Turn off the Grinder in every 1 minute to keep the grinder cool), then mix into a large bowl and add fennel with it. Then again keep it for 5/6 hrs.
After 5/6 hours beat the batter very well for 5-10 minutes with hand.
To make the syrup heat 2 cups of water in a pan and add sugar and bring to a nice boil to make syrup . Make a thick syrup. Add rose water and cardamom powder to it.
Heat oil in a kadai and add 2 tablespoons of ghee. Now fill the Jeelipi batter into a piping bag with a number 3 nozzle. You can also use an empty ketchup bottle.
Squeeze the Jeelipi batter out in the hot oil in a pretzel shape to about 2 inches in diameter. Fry the jeelipi(s) till golden brown on both sides.
Once fried then soak the jeelipi(s) completely in sugar syrup for 20-30 seconds and serve hot.
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