Sandwich Gulabjamun (from milk powder)

• Servings:
• Preparation time: 20 minutes.
• Frying time: 10-12 minutes(each batch).
• Soaking time: 5-6 hours.
• making sandwich time: 10-12 minutes
• Total time: 44 minutes.

‘Sandwich Gulab Jamun’ is the variation of classic Gulab Jamun; in which Khoa (Mawa) is filled in between the two halves of cylindrical shape Gulab Jamun. It is one of the popular desserts from north India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh etc…

For preparing this it is necessary to give cylindrical shape to  the classic or traditional Gulab Jamun.

Absolutely Delicious…

 Ingredients:

• Milk powder: 3 cup
• Khoya (Mawa): 200 gm
• Maida(Refind flour): 1 cup
• Ghee: 1 cup
• Meetha soda (baking soda): 1 pinch
• Sugar: 500 gm
• Water: 1 cup
• Rose essence: half teaspoon
• Green cardamom: 1 teaspoon (powder)
• Saffron: 1 pinch

Preparation:

1. Take Mawa, powder sugar, pinch of cardamom powder, and few saffron threads in a mixer jar and mix well.Keep aside.

For making sugar syrup:

1. Take a large pan; pour sugar as well as water in it; add cardamom powder and saffron it and bring it to boil.
2. Let the syrup boil for 3-4 minutes; remove from heat, add rose essence, saffron thread and cardamom powder in the syrup, keep aside.

For making dough:

1. Sieve Maida, milk powder and Meetha soda together; take a big mixing bowl, put the mixture of milk powder, Maida & baking powder and ghee, mix well by rubbing between palms.
2. Mix well and prepare smooth dough with the help of water; make the dough soft just like chapatti.
3. Divide the dough in to  25- 30 pieces; give cylindrical shape to all pieces, keep aside.

Method:

1. Deep fry on very low flame all pieces in batches of 8 -10. Slowly Gulab Jamun will rise and float.
2. Fry till it become chocolate brown in colour no need to shake Keep it aside and cool to room temperature.
3. Put fried Gulab Jamun in lukewarm sugar syrup; keep it about 4-5 hours.
4. Take out all Gulab Jamun from the syrup and put it on the shiver, so that all the Gulab Jamun become dry.
5. Now slit the Gulab Jamun in the centre and smear Mawa mixture in the center and topped up the other part.
6. Sandwich Gulab Jamun is ready to serve.

Note: Gulab Jamun should not be fried on high flame; it will become hard and remain uncooked in centre.

Decorate with sliced almond and pistachios.

Sandwich Gulabjamun (from milk powder) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.