Sweet potatoes Gulab Jamun. Now heat oil for deep frying in a kadai. add a tiny piece of the dough and check the oil temperature. If the dough comes up gradually and steadily, the oil is ready for frying. The Sweet potato gulab jamun or Shakarkandi ke Gulab Jamun mithai is one I grew up to, as my Grand Mom was a bhakt of Devi Maa and sweet potato Gulab jamun was always the first Bhog for Maa Durga.
Yesterday she made these delicious Gulab Jamun with Sweet Potatoes!
I am learning new dishes from her, going back to my roots and gobbling Bengali dishes.
Mom and Dad make a feast for my every meal - carb, fish and sweets, overloaded.
You can have Sweet potatoes Gulab Jamun using 11 ingredients and 19 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Sweet potatoes Gulab Jamun
- It's of heaped cup mashed sweet potato (2 medium sized or 500gm).
- You need of milk powder.
- It's of maida all purpose flour.
- You need of For the sugar syrup:.
- Prepare of Grated jaggery.
- You need of water.
- Prepare of saffron.
- Prepare of cardamom powder.
- It's of few chopped pistachios.
- Prepare of Rose petals for garnish.
- Prepare of Oil for frying.
Mom has always been about homemade food! She never liked buying sweets; instead she would prepare it from. I still have a paneer jamun and aloo jamun recipe on hand. will share them soon. This jamun is mae only with sweet potatoes.
Sweet potatoes Gulab Jamun step by step
- Rinse the sweet potatoes nicely.
- Take a pressure cooker add water and place sweet potatoes for boiling.
- Boil them for 2-3 whistles Switch off the flame and Let it cool.
- Take out the seeet potatoes and peel them.
- Now mash them with a fork Measure 1 cup and set aside..
- In a sauce pan,take jaggery add water to it..
- Now add saffron and cardamom powder..
- Heat it up, stir until it's completely dissolved..
- Once you get a thick syrup switch off the flame.
- Now add maida and milk powder to the mashed sweet potato Mix well without any lumps..
- Grease your hands with oil, shape into small lemon sized balls very lightly.
- Shape all the balls and make it ready..
- Now heat oil in a kadai, the oil should not be smoking hot..
- If you pinch a small piece and add it it should slowly come up that is the right temperature for frying jamuns..
- Keep the flame in medium and keep rolling. Add 3-4 balls at a time, and fry till golden brown. Roll over for even frying..
- Drain them on a tissue paper for 2 mins then add it to slightly warm sugar syrup..
- Give atleast half and hour standing time before serving..
- Sweet potato Gulab Jamuns are ready.
- Garnish with some rose petals.
It just melts in your mouth. You dont need lots of ingredients to make this as well. It can be made only using sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes replace the milk solids and make this recipe naturally vegan. Also, the sweet potato imparts a lot of flavor to the jamuns and adds a even better melt in your mouth texture.