Honey Jilebi. Honey Jelabi.

Ingredients:

Maida flour/all purpose flour 1 cup
Saffron 1/2 spoon
Sodium bi carbonate – 1/4 spoon
Honey 2 cups
Sour curd or yogurd 1 cup
Sugar 1/4 cup
Ghee for deep frying
Sauce Bottle with thin nossil.

Method:

Mix maida flour with soda-salt and well beaten curd. Add ‘yellow food color’ or saffron strands(crushed with 1 spoon of water) Make a thin-running consistency batter.

In an seperate vessel. Heat sugar with 1 cup of water. Once it is dissolved and forms into thin syrup. Transfer it to wide bowl.

Further add honey to this sugar syrup. Mix them thoroughly. Set aside.

In a wide wok, heat ghee. Maintaint he stove over medium heat.

In the sauce bottle, fill the batter prepared. Invert it over ‘hot oil’ and press and squeeze the batter gently to make 3″ size ‘jilebis’. Run this into circles. Try just 2-3 jilebis in each batch. Fry till golden-yellow color.

Store them over kitchen tissues for a while. While they are still warm…dip them in honey-sugar syrup for whole 5 minutes.

Serve chilled or warm as a dessert.

Rather than usual sugary jilebis, these tastes absolutely different and healthy choice too!