jangiri recipe /Soft and juicy jangiri/மினி ஜாங்கிரி/Diwali sweet recipe/சுலபமான முறையில் ஜாங்கிரி

Ingredients
Whole urad dal(without skin) – 1 cup
Rice flour– 1 tbsp
Orange Food Color – 1/4 tsp

For The Sugar Syrup:
Sugar – 2 cup
Water -1 cup
Cardamom – 5 nos
Saffron stings -few
Lemon Juice – 2 tbsp

Method:

1. Rinse urad dal twice,then soak for 2 hrs.

2. Then grind it in a mixie with very little water.Grind it to a thick batter like medu vada batter..When you take a pinch of the batter and put it in water, it should float that’s the right consistency.The batter should be more like butter very smooth and light.

3. Take it a mixing bowl, add rice flour and food color to it.Set aside.

4. In parallel make the sugar syrup – Take sugar in a wide bottomed pan,add water to it and let it boil.When it becomes thick and sticky start checking for string consistency.When it is half string that is it will start to form 1 string but will not stand thats the stage we are looking for, switch off.

5. Add cardamom powder and saffron strings mix it well.

6. Then add lemon juice, Set aside.The syrup will be sticky, it will thicken with time,to avoid crystallisation we are adding lemon juice.

7. Now get ready with your piping bag or ziplock cover. .

8. Mix the batter well for the color to be mixed evenly.Take a ziplock cover fill it with the batter,cut a small hole.

9. Heat oil, oil temperature is very important it should not smoking hot, it should be hot.Squeeze and draw patterns,do not crowd much.

10. used paniyaram laddle to flip.You can use a skewer or wooden chopstick too.Flip over and cook.Deep fry till both sides are slightly crisp but color should not change.Drain and remove from oil.

11. Quickly add to warm syrup for 2 mins for each batch,then drain and arrange it in a plate.Repeat the process till the entire batter finishes.Finally after all the jangiris are fried,you can pour the remaining syrup over the jangiris.

Our soft and juicy jangiri is ready to eat