Jhangiri | Imarati Recipe | How to make Jelebi at Home

Jhangiri / Imarati is an absolutely delicious indian sweet made with fine urad dal batter which is deep fried and then infused with sugar syrup. You could make this without adding any artificial food color. But i think the jhangiri looks good with the color. Do try these crispy jhangiri as they are sure to impress your loved ones.

Jhangiri | Imarati

Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Sweets

Soaking Time: 1 hr | Prep Time: 10 mins | Cooking Time: 20 mins | Yields: 20 approx

Ingredients:

Urad dal - 1 cup

Rice flour - 1 tblspn ( or use corn flour)

Salt - a pinch

Orange food color - a pinch

For Syrup:

Sugar - 1.5 cups

Orange color - a pinch

Lemon juice - 1/2 tsp

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Oil - to deep fry

Method:

Soak the urad dal for 1 hour. Grind it to a fine paste without adding much water. Add water only when it stucks.

Add orange food color, rice flour(or corn flour) and to it and mix well.

In a vessel,take sugar and add 1/2 cup of water. Bring it to boil till it reaches one string consistency. When you take a drop of syrup between your fingers, a string will appear. Add cardamom powder to this.

Take a wide flat pan, heat oil. Meanwhile, fill a piping bag or a ziplock cover with the batter. To check if oil is hot, drop little batter and it should rise up immediately.

At this stage, keep the flame at medium to low and start making jhangiri shapes. To make jhangiri shape, first make three circles and then add small circles over it. Flip on the other side and cook it.

Soak the fried jhangiri in sugar syrup for 2 minutes and remove.

Enjoy!

Pictorial:

Keep all your ingredients ready

Soak urad dal in water for 1 hour

and grind it

to a fine paste without adding water. Add water only when it stucks

Add rice flour(or corn flour) and a pinch of salt. Rice flour is added to make it little crispy otherwise it will be soft and soggy

Mix it well

Add orange food color

Mix well

In a vessel, take sugar and 1/2 cup of water. Bring it to boil till it reaches one string consistency

Add food color

One string consistency is reached

Now add cardamom powder or crushed cardamom

Add few drops of lemon juice to avoid crystallisation of sugar

In a wide flat pan, heat oil to deep fry. Meanwhile fill the piping bag with the batter. Otherwise you can cut the ziplog cover or plastic bag in its corner and use it as shown in the picture

Fill it with batter

To make jhangiri shape, first make three circles

and then add small circles over it.

Make shape as shown in the picture directly in oil

To check if oil is hot, drop little batter and it should rise up immediately. At this stage, keep the flame at medium to low and start making jhangiri shapes.

Flip on the other side and cook it.

Once fried, remove them using a slotted ladle to drain excess oil

Soak the fried jhangiri in sugar syrup for 2 minutes and remove.

You can also use a skewer to take the jhangiri

Once it is soaked in sugar syrup, remove them from syrup

Enjoy the hot jhangiri!