Rangalur Pantua Or Sweet Potato Gulab Jamun

Name: Rangalur Pantua
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Bengali
Ingredients: Sweet Potato 2 big, boiled and mashed; Rice Flour 2 tablespoons; Maida 2 tablespoons; Grated Khoya Or Milk Powder 2 tablespoons; Chopped Nuts; Sugar Crystal; Black Cardamom seeds; Saffron threads; Enough Ghee or Sunflower oil for deep frying; Sugar 2 cups; Water 3 cups; Green cardamom crushed 2

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Jan 14, 2017
Moumita Ghosh
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Pantua is the Bengali version of famous Indian sweet Gulab Jamun. Soft dumplings are deep fried in Ghee and the soaked in sugar syrup. Today I'm going to share the recipe of Rangalur Pantua, that means Sweet Potato Gulab Jamun. In this recipe, boiled sweet potatoes will be used instead of Paneer. This way my Grand mom used to make Pantuas at home during winter. She used to put Scraped Coconut filling inside the Pantuas. I didn't do in this recipe. This recipe will make 15 Pantuas. Let's see my version of Rangalur Pantua below.

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Yields

10 serving(s)

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Time

Preperation
45 Minutes

Cooking
20 Minutes

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Cooking Level
Medium

Meal Type
Dessert

Cuisine
Bengali

Ingredients of Rangalur Pantua

For The Dumplings :

Sweet Potato 2 big, boiled and mashed
Rice Flour 2 tablespoons
Maida 2 tablespoons
Grated Khoya Or Milk Powder 2 tablespoons
Chopped Nuts
Sugar Crystal
Black Cardamom seeds
Saffron threads
Enough Ghee or Sunflower oil for deep frying

For Syrup :

Sugar 2 cups
Water 3 cups
Green cardamom crushed 2

Directions to make Rangalur Pantua in steps

Steps

First we have to make the syrup. Take a big sauce pan, add sugar, water & green cardamom and bring everything to a nice boil. Boil till the syrup looks nice n thick. If you want may use Patali or nolen gur instead of sugar. It will add a nice flavour to the Pantuas and tastes great in winter.
Take the mashed sweet potato in a bowl, add rice flour, maida, khoya and mix well to make a soft dough. If the dough is little harder, add 1 or 2 tablespoons of fresh cream and make it soft. If the dough is watery, add some maida and make it soft n smooth.
Now make approx. 15 balls from the dough and keep aside. Take each ball, make a small hole using your finger, put some chopped nuts, saffron, sugar crystal & a seed of black cardamom. Close the hole nicely and keep aside the dumpling, covered with damp cloth. In this way make the rest dumplings and keep covered for frying later.
Take a deep frying pan & heat Ghee or Oil or Both ghee and oil, and deep fry the balls on low heat till they become golden brown. Take the golden fried dumplings out of the pan and drop into the sugar syrup immediately.
Serve hot to taste it soft like cotton candy, it will melt in mouth.

Enjoy....