Jalebi

Ingredients:-

· Fine floor(maida)- 300gm
· Yoghurt- ½ cup
· Baking soda- 1 tsp
· Orange colour
· Pure ghee for frying
· Cardamoms- 4 to 5

For sugar syrup

· Sugar- 500 gm
· Water- 500 ml

Method:-

To make sugar syrup: boil water and sugar in a wide pan, till it thickens to a single strand consistency. After this allow it to cool and mix some crushed cardamoms in it.
Mix yoghurt and baking soda with floor. Add water to make it softer dough. Keep this dough overnight for fermentation.
Next morning add water to make it thin. Now take a muslin cloth and make a small hole in the centre. Pour the mixture in it.
Meanwhile, heat ghee in a woke.
Spread the mixture in the shape of jalebies in the heated ghee and fry till golden brown from both the sides.
Before serving, dip the prepared jalebies in the sugar syrup for 5 to 10 min. and serve hot.

Tips:-

1. You can serve the jalebies with milk to improve the eyesight.

2. you can also serve them along with poha, which is a favourite snack of Northern India.

For instant jalebi:-

Mix 1 cup yoghurt, ¾ cup fine floor (maida), 1tsp soda or eno and 3 to 4 drops of liqiud orange colour. Mix and keep them for ten min. After that fry the jalebies in ghee and serve after dipping them in sugar syrup.