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Dry Gulab Jamun Using Bread | Diwali Recipes 2015

Dry gulab jamun using bread is a quick sweet thing. It just needs 25 minutes.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time15 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Servings: 10
Author: Sumana

Ingredients

  • Bread slices- 8 nos.
  • Milk- 1/4 cup
  • Sugar- 8 tsp
  • Cardamom powder- 1/2 tsp
  • Cooking oil- Enough to deep fry around 1/2 cup

Instructions

Method

  • Powder the sugar finely using mixer grinder. You can also use store bought sugar powder directly.
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  • Trim the brown edges of each bread and break them in to pieces. Put these bread pieces in to mixer jar and use Pulse option of Mixer to crumble them evenly.
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  • Transfer the crumbled bread in to a wide bowl, then add 3.5 tsp of powdered sugar and cardamom powder. Give a quick mix. You can taste at this stage to adjust sweetness. Then adding milk little by little make bread crumbs dough. The dough should not be neither too thick nor too thin.
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  • Taking lemon sized dough in your hand, shape it in to ball. Keep all the balls ready like this.
  • Heat oil in a pan and deep fry each of the jamun ball prepared in the previous step. Let the flame be medium so that jamun doesn't get burnt outside. Fry them till they turn golden brown and drain oil over kitchen tissue.
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  • Finally take all the fried bread jamuns in a bowl and sprinkle rest of sugar powder. Toss them, so that enough sugar powder coats over each of them.
  • Easy sweet bread dry jamun is ready to gulp on Diwali festival.
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Notes

  • Do not include the edges of bread which may turn the gulab jamun hard.
  • One bread slice approximately needs 1/2 to 3/4 tsp of sugar powder. You can taste the dough and adjust accordingly.
  • While making the dough if you feel it needs more milk, then feel free to add. The bread dough should be neither too stiff nor too runny. you should be able make balls that is soft and smooth from inside.
  • The dry jamun looks hard when you just finish frying, it turns soft, juicy after some time with coated sugar. So don't panic.