Ingredients –
- Khoya or Mawa (crumbled) – 2 cups
- Paneer / Cottage Cheese (crumbled) – 1 cup
- All purpose flour / Maida – 1 tbsp.
- Semolina / Suji – 1 tbsp.
- Baking powder – 1 tsp.
- Vegetable oil / Ghee for frying.
For sugar syrup
- Sugar – 2 cups (as per your taste)
- Cardamom powder or Kewra essence – 1/2 tsp.
For stuffing –
- Mawa / Khoya Dough – 2 tbsp
- Sugar – 1 tsp (as per your taste)
- Chopped Pistachios (Pista), cashew, etc.
- Pistachios (Pista) for garnishing
- Food color (Yellow) as per your choice
- Milk for prepare the soft dough
Method –
- Mash the khoya with your palm until it becomes soft and smooth.
- Mix Paneer, Semolina, Maida and Baking Powder.
- Now mix everything well and knead until it becomes soft.
- With help of Milk, prepare soft dough.
- Soft and smooth dough is ready, keep it aside for 20 minutes.
- You can use this dough for Khoya Gulab Jamun and Langcha Sweets.
- Add Sugar and 1 1/2 cups of water into the kadhai / Pan on medium heat.
- Mix well and let the Sugar dissolve in the water completely.
- Keep the syrup gooey in texture, don’t make it too thin.
- Once Sugar chasni is boiled, turn off the heat.
- Add Kewra essence into the Sugar syrup and mix well.
- For stuffing, take a bowl and add all the stuffing ingredients and mix well.
- After 20 minutes, knead the Dough once again.
- Take small amount of dough, roll the dough into round shape.
- If dough is sticking on your palm you can grease your palm with oil.
- Now flatten the balls in you palm, fill with little stuffing.
- Close it evenly by rolling the ball in your hand.
- Repeat the same for rest of the dough.
- Heat the vegetable oil in a pan/kadhai to medium to low heat.
- Fry the Kala Jamun balls in the heated oil.
- Keep stirring until it turns dark in color.
- Once ready, transfer into a kitchen or absorbent tissue.
- Fry all the kala jamun in the same way.
- Leave fried kala Jamun for 25 – 30 minutes in warm sugar chasni.
- After 30 minutes, take out all the kala Jamun into a bowl.
- Kala Jamun is ready, you can garnish with Pista powder, coconut powder, etc.