Paneer - Sweet Potato Gulab Jamun
Deep fried paneer and sweet potato balls dipped in cardamom flavored sugar syrup.
Ingredients
For Jamun
- 1 cup 8oz or 226g crushed paneer
- 1/2 cup mashed sweet potatoes around 150g before cooking
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 tea spn baking soda
- Oil/ghee for deep frying
For Syrup
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 cups water
- 1/2 tea spn cardamom powder
Instructions
- Heat sugar and water in a pan till it starts boiling.
- Take off the heat and add cardamom powder.
- Cook sweet potatoes in pressure cooker.
- Peel them and grind to a smooth paste.
- Mix paneer, sweet potato paste, all purpose flour, baking soda.
- Make small balls out of the mixture. To make sure they don't fall apart, apply some pressure with palms to make sure they stay together.
- Heat oil, add 1 tbl spn of ghee to oil.
- Deep fry the jamuns, till they are deep brown.
- Take them out on a paper towel.
- When they are still warm, slide in warm syrup.
Notes
Aayi has this great tip. Instead of deep frying in all ghee, she adds just a tbl spn of ghee to a kadai of oil. That gives the aroma of ghee to the deep fried product.
You can add few tea spns of milk to help in grinding sweet potatoes. It is optional.
You can add few tea spns of milk to help in grinding sweet potatoes. It is optional.