Jelebi

Ingredients:
                       All Purpose Flour/ Maida: 1 cup
                       Rapid Rise Yeast:  1 tspn
                       Corn Starch: 2 tspn
                       Yoghurt/Curd: 1 tbspn
                       Oil: 1 tspn
                       Warm Water: 3/4 cup
                       Cardamom Powder: 1/8 tspn
                       Oil + 2-3 tbspn ghee for deep frying 


For Syrup:
                     Sugar: 1 1/4 cups
                     Water: 1 cup
                     Lemon juice: 1 tspn
                     Cardamom Powder: 1/4 tspn


Method:
                  1.  In a bowl, add maida, corn starch, cardamom powder and rapid rise yeast. Mix well.
                   2. Add yoghurt, oil and warm water and  mix thoroughly ( make sure there are no lumps formed).
                   3.  Keep this bowl in a warm place and allow the batter to rise for 30 mins.
                   4.  In a heavy bottom pan, add water, sugar and cardamom powder and mix well.  Cook for 15-20 mins on medium heat.
                   5. Reduce the flame to low heat and add lemon juice.
                   6. Mix the fermented batter and put it in a mustard or ketchup bottle.
                   7. Heat oil and ghee in a pan on medium heat.  Switch off the flame for sugar syrup so that it does not become too thick.
                   8. Squeeze out the batter into hot oil  in a circular motion.  Fry until bottom side is light golden brown and flip once to cook the other side.
                   9.  Remove the jelebi and Shake off excess oil and place directly into sugar syrup.
                   10. Allow jelebi to rest in sugar syrup for a minute and flip to the other side and shake off the excess syrup and place on to a plate.
                   11. Continue frying remaining jelebis.
                   12. Serve hot.


NOTE: 
                   1. Jelebis will remain fresh for 4-5 days unrefrigerated.
                   2. This recipe makes about 35 jelebis. 


Source:  showmethecurry.com