Crispy Jalebi Recipe - How to Make Jalebi Pakistani (Video): People from South Asia loves to have Jalebi from hawkers as street food and today we are sharing recipe 'how to make jalebi at home'. It's a crispy jalebi recipe that you can instantly prepare at home just by following the few steps. To make this recipe, our inspiration is traditional jalebi style and we tried to follow that and sharing this authentic recipe that I recently took from local 'Halwai'.
In sweet dishes collection, Jalebi is the most welcomed recipe or dish that people love to have. Normally people like crispy, thin and juicy jalebis. It seems like a complex process to make jalebi at home but it's not! You can easily make it Halwai like jalebi at home in your kitchen.
You can serve Jalebi on different occasions and events. It's a perfect dish to add to your sweet collection. Jalebi is also famous by the name of Zulbia in some parts of North and East African region, South Asia and West Asia.
As I am making Pakistani Jalebi so here I'd like to share that it's a favorite mithai of every Pakistani and every bakery makes a bulk of jalebi and sellout in no time. People love to eat and distribute on a special occasions.
How to Make Jalebi Pakistani Style
Pakistani jalebi recipe is so famous around the world. Here, I am making a quick and easy recipe that the beginner can also try at home. For this recipe, you don't need to be a master in making jalebi as I found the easy style that can help beginners to make perfect jalebi at home.
Preparation time: 30 mins
Difficulty: Beginners
Recipe Language: Urdu/Hindi
Serving: 3-4 persons
Crispy Jalebi Recipe (Pakistani Style)
Ingredients:
Maida - All purpose flour - 2 Cups
Yogurt - ½ cup
Baking Powder - ½ Tsp
Sugar - 1.5 cups
Water - 1 Cup
Kewra Essence - ½ Tsp
Green Cardamom - 5-6
Editable Food Color: 2 pinches
Water - As required
Oil - For Frying
Method:
Preparation of Jalebi Mixture
- In a bowl, add Maida (All purpose flour), yogurt and baking powder and mix all the ingredients through spoon.
- Now add water to make a thick paste. (Slowly and gradually add water to make a paste otherwise the mixture will be watery and jalebi will be deformed).
- After making thick paste keep it in a warm place for about 4-5 hours to get ferment.
- Now after 5 hrs, prepare sugar syrup.
Preparation of Sugar Syrup (Jalebi Sheera)
To prepare a perfect sugar syrup to coat jalebi;
- We need 1 cup of water and 1.5 cups of sugar mix it well.
- Add few drops of Kewra essence
- Also, add Green cardamom seeds or powder to add aroma and flavor in syrup.
- Boil it for about 10 mins on medium heat.
- Keep boiling until you get nice textured or sticky syrup. You can check the stickiness through fingers. (Make sure to keep it cool before checking as sugar syrup can hurt you due to high temperature)
- As you get the desired stickiness keep it on a stove on the very low heat.
Start Frying Jalebi
- Now, after 5 hrs fill the mixture in a bottle with a small hole or use traditional jalebi process to fill jalebi mixture in cloth and wrap it around hand to form jalebi in hot oil. I used a simple bottle hack and used 'ketchup bottle to make jalebi.
- Heat up the oil in a pan and start frying jalebi.
- To make a perfect shape of jalebi, just pour the jalebi mixture in hot oil in circular spiral form.
- As the Jalebi got fried and changes color to light brown.
- Take it out and pour in warm sugar syrup for 5 seconds. (Make sure the syrup is not hot otherwise the Jalebi's get soggy)
- Take the Jalebi out from syrup and keep it on the wire to remain crispy for a longer period.
- Now Jalebi's are ready to serve.
Jalebi is the all-time favorite recipe in South Asia and one of the best food in a sweet category that people sell on streets. It also ranks in best selling street food in sweet dishes. Everybody loves it due to its unique flavor.
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Crispy Jalebi Recipe - How to Make Jalebi Pakistani (Video)
Materials
- Maida – All purpose flour – 2 Cups
- Yogurt – ½ cup
- Baking Powder – ½ Tsp
- Sugar – 1.5 cups
- Water – 1 Cup
- Kewra Essence – ½ Tsp
- Green Cardamom – 5-6
- Editable Food Color: 2 pinches
- Water – As required
- Oil – For Frying
Instructions
- Preparation of Jalebi Mixture
- In a bowl, add Maida (All purpose flour), yogurt and baking powder and mix all the ingredients through spoon.
- Now add water to make a thick paste. (Slowly and gradually add water to make a paste otherwise the mixture will be watery and jalebi will be deformed).
- After making thick paste keep it in a warm place for about 4-5 hours to get ferment.
- Now after 5 hrs, prepare sugar syrup.
- Preparation of Sugar Syrup (Jalebi Sheera)
- To prepare a perfect sugar syrup to coat jalebi;
- We need 1 cup of water and 1.5 cups of sugar mix it well.
- Add few drops of Kewra essence
- Also, add Green cardamom seeds or powder to add aroma and flavor in syrup.
- Boil it for about 10 mins on medium heat.
- Keep boiling until you get nice textured or sticky syrup. You can check the stickiness through fingers. (Make sure to keep it cool before checking as sugar syrup can hurt you due to high temperature)
- As you get the desired stickiness keep it on a stove on the very low heat.
- Start Frying Jalebi
- Now, after 5 hrs fill the mixture in a bottle with a small hole or use traditional jalebi process to fill jalebi mixture in cloth and wrap it around hand to form jalebi in hot oil. I used a simple bottle hack and used ‘ketchup bottle to make jalebi.
- Heat up the oil in a pan and start frying jalebi.
- To make a perfect shape of jalebi, just pour the jalebi mixture in hot oil in circular spiral form.
- As the Jalebi got fried and changes color to light brown.
- Take it out and pour in warm sugar syrup for 5 seconds. (Make sure the syrup is not hot otherwise the Jalebi’s get soggy)
- Take the Jalebi out from syrup and keep it on the wire to remain crispy for a longer period.
- Now Jalebi’s are ready to serve.
Hinz
Easy Jalebi recipe.. Pakistani style! Best for beginners