Jamuns-Celebration Jamuns!!

  


















Who can resist this very succulent Indian sweet? Gluttony becomes no sin when it comes to eating these very tempting sweets...Celebration or not,I never gave up any reason to devour jamuns,rasagolla,chum chum etc...this time we had a reason too... our car got a sister!!So shouldnt I celebrate the arrival of the new silver beauty?....kheer,barfi.... a host of sweets came to my mind...nay...it has been quite a while that I have not eaten Jamuns...I wanted to have Jamuns...but to my utter disappointment found that my Gits Jamun Mix was khali :( I did not have the patience of my mother to split the milk and reduce it to khova, mix it with maida and soda, fry it and dip it in the flavoured sugar syrup as done traditionally.Poor Amma...10-15 yrs back she used to take so much of trouble to satiate our cravings for this sweet!! Or else my father bought it from the only Bengali sweet shop in Calicut those days,'The Royal Bakery'.Whenever we had some VIP guests at home, my father never forgot to bring a big assortment of all those favourite bengali sweet collection....Well,I could not give up my craving for jamun so easily...just then I remembered an aunty in B'lore once offering me a jamun made out of bread!!...Yes, I finally decided to try this unconventional jamun from bread...and lol...absolutely yummy jamuns!!...but the only thing is that we need to take some extra care or the whole thing can be a mess! Here goes the recipe:
An unconventional Jamun from Bread
Ingredients
(Makes-15 jamuns)
white bread slices-3(remove the trims and take just the soft inside)
Milk powder-1 cup
Baking soda-1 tsp
Maida/All purpose flour-2 tsp
Egg white -1/2 (optional)
Sugar-3 cups
Water-4 cups
Milk-as rqd(just to mix the flour)
Cardamom powder-1 tsp
Kewra Essence/Rose water-a drop(optional
Butter-1tbsp
Oil-as reqd


Method:

Mix the soft inside of the bread with milk powder,baking soda,maida,a little butter,egg white(Optional) and very less milk(A tbsp or two).Knead well into a soft dough. Make small balls.Heat oil in a wok.Deep fry the balls till they become golden brown on very slow fire.Keep turning with the ladle or else it will get burnt.Meanwhile prepare sugar syrup mixing sugar and water.Add cardamom powder and kewra or rose water, if u like the flavour.Now add pour the hot sugar syrup onto the jamuns and allow it to settle for nearly 30 minutes.Jamuns will swell up with the sugar syrup.so choose an appropriate container.Now serve it warm or cold with toppings of whipped cream,vanilla ice cream etc.