KALA JAMUN / How to make Kala Jamun at home / step by step

• Sugar                           - 2 cups
• Cardamom pods           - 1 or 2

• Jamun Pwd                   - 1 packet
• Milk                              - ¼ cup
• Cardamom pwd             - a pinch
• Sugar                           - ½ tsp
• Green food color           - a pinch
• Oil                                - to fry

• Take 2 cups of sugar in a bowl.
• Add 1 cup of water, cardamom pods crushed and mix well.
• Heat in a medium flame, until the sugar dissolves and turns one string consistency.
• Turn off the flame, keep warm on stove.

1. Take jamoon pwd in a wide bowl.
2. Knead & make sure there are no lumps in it.

3. Add milk slowly and knead to smooth dough.

4. Slice one-fourth of the dough separately and three-fourth of the dough separately.

5. To one-fourth add a pinch of cardamom pwd and ½ tsp sugar.

6. Add ¼ tsp of green food color mixed in water.

7. Mix all the above and knead to smooth dough.

8. Make small balls out of it.

9. Also make small balls out of the three-fourth dough.

10. Now stuff the colored balls made and cover it up.

11. First roll it to round shape.

12. Then make it to small cylindrical shapes. ( this is optional only, you can keep it to round shape also )

13. Heat oil in a thick bottomed kadai or wok.

14. Drop the rolled dough gently in hot oil.

15. Keep the flame to low medium and deep fry to golden brown.

16. Take care to reduce flame, or else the outer side of jamun gets cooked and inner side remains uncooked.

17. Once it turns golden brown all sides, drain from oil and keep aside.

18. Little later, ( approx. 10 mins ) fry them again in hot oil.

19. In low flame, fry them until it attains nice darker color.

20. Drain from oil and soak them in warm sugar syrup;

21. Let it soak for 3 to 4 hrs.

22. You can see, the Kala Jamoons swell up after absorbing the sugar syrup to it.

23. Lipsmacking homemade kala jamoons are ready to enjoy..!