Ingredients
2 cups maida – all purpose flour (refined flour)
1/2 tsp. Baking powder
ghee (clarified butter) for frying
2 cups Sugar
A pinch of saffron
1 tsp. cardamom powder
Method
Mix maida (all purpose flour, plain flour) with baking powder, cardamom powder and water to made a batter of the consistency of thick cream.
Put it aside in a warm place to ferment for 24 hrs.
Dissolve 2 cups of sugar in 2 cups of water and boil till it becomes a syrup of one thread consistency.
Add saffron soaked in warm water.
Now heat Ghee(clarified butter) in a deep frying pan.
Fill up with batter in an ordinary plastic funnel or a coconut shell or a muslin cloth and pierce it from the bottom.
Now allow the batter to fall into continuos double circles .
Allow the jalebis to set and then turn over once.
When fried well, remove out of the pan and slip into the syrup , apply slight pressure so as to make them absorb the syrup.
After 5 minutes, take it out of the syrup , drain and serve hot.