Jalaibi

 

 

Ingredients

1 cup maida
½ cup rice flour
2 cup water
2½ cup sugar
1 tsp. soda
¼ tsp. cream of tartar
6 green cardamom (Chhoti Ilaichi)
2 tsp. Rose water
Saffron (Zafran)
Yellow/orange food colour
Oil/ghee for frying

Instructions

Mix maida, rice flour, soda and water and keep the mixture overnight in warm place.
Mix sugar, water, ilaichi saffron cream of tartar and cook to make it into thick syrup.
Deep fry the mixture in the curls using a nozzle like the one used for icing of cakes. Fry till light brown and pour into the syrup. DO NOT OVER SOAK.
Remove and let the excess syrup drain out.