Bread gulabjamun is a variation to your regular gulabjam recipe. If mawa id not available then you can make bread gulabjamun. The stuffing that we are making gives a fantastic taste to these gulabjamun.
Ingredients:
For Sugar Syrup:1 cup Sugar
3/4 cup Water
Cardamom powder to taste
For Stuffing:4 tsp Gulkand
4 tsp Dry nuts (Chopped Cashew nuts, Almonds, Pistachios)
For Gulabjamun:
4 Bread slices
A pinch of Baking soda
1 tsp Ghee
Milk
Oil for frying
Method
For Sugar Syrup:* Heat up sauce pan on high heat.
* Add sugar and water.
* Mix well and bring the mixture to boil.
* When sugar dissolves completely and mixture boils lower down the heat to medium.
* Cook syrup on medium heat for another 5-6 minutes.
* The syrup should not have any thread consistency. It should be just sticky.
* Turn off the gas and add cardamom powder.
* You also can add a drop of rose essence too if you have.
* Mix well and syrup is ready.
For Stuffing:* In a bowl take gulkand.
* Add dry nuts and a little cardamom powder.
* Mix well and stuffing is ready. Keep it aside.
For Gulabjamun:* Take bread slices and remove the edges.
* Cut the bread into pieces and transfer these into a blender jar.
* Blend the bread into powder as we make breadcrumbs.
* Transfer the blended bread into a dish.
* Add baking soda and ghee.
* Mix everything well together.
* Add a little milk at a time and knead dough.
* Bread absorbs moisture. Add milk accordingly.
* The dough should neither be too thick nor too thin.
* Cover and rest the dough for about 10 minutes.
* Take the stuffing and make small balls from it.
* Take a small portion of dough and make it nice and smooth.
* Press it at the center to make pari as we make for modak.
* Fill the stuffing and close the pari from all sides.
* Make these smooth and even. There should not be any cracks.
* Heat up oil on medium heat.
* When oil is enough hot lower down the heat to low.
* Drop the gulabjamun into hot oil.
* Fry gulabjam on very low heat until these turn nice and even golden form all sides.
* Take the gulabjamun out and drop these into hot syrup.
* Make sure that the syrup is hot while dropping hot gulabjamun in it.
* Soak the gulabjamun in syrup for at least 1 hour.
* Bread gulabjamun are already.
* You can make 6 gulabjamun from 4 bread slices.
* You can skip the stuffing if you don’t want.
* Also you can fill the stuffing in your regular gulabjamun.