Kesar Malai Kulfi

Ingredients :

1 litre full fat milk
3/4^th cup sugar
¼ tsp elaichi powder
a few saffron strands

1 tbsp arrowroot or cornflour

Method :

Soak the saffron in a little warm milk.
Keep aside. Mix the arrowroot in 2 tbsp of water and keep aside.
Put the milk in a board non-stick pan and allow it to boil.
Put the arrowroot solution and sugar and mix well.
Boil on a medium flame and keep on stirring continuously till the milk reduce to a little less than half the original quantity.
Cool completely and put the elaichi powder and saffron mixture and stir well.
Pour into kulfi moulds and freeze overnight till it sets.
To unmould, allow the moulds to remain outside the refrigerator for at least 5 minutes and then unmould by inserting a wooden skewer stick or a fork, in the centre of the kulfi and pulling it out.

Instant Jalebis

Ingredients :
For the batter :
1 teacup self-raising flour
a pinch baking powder
½ teacup fresh curds
ghee for deep frying

For the syrup :
1 teacup sugar
½ tsp saffron
2 tsp rose water

For garnishing :
½ tsp cardamom powder
1 tbsp blanched and sliced pistachios
rose petals (optional)

Method :
Sieve the flour with the baking powder.
Put ½ teacup of water to the curds and beat well.
Melt the sugar in 1 teacup of water and boil for 5 minutes.
Warm the saffron in a small vessel, put a little milk and rub until the saffron dissolves.
Add to the syrup. Put the rose water.
The syrup should be of 1 thread consistency. Keep the syrup warm.

How to proceed :
Heat the ghee in a non-stick frying pan.
Select a plastic bottle with a small hole in the lid and fill with the batter.
Press the batter out from the bottle into the hot ghee in the form of a jalebi.
Fry on both sides. Take out and wait for 1 minute. Drop the fried jalebis into the hot syrup.
Keep for 2 minutes and then remove.
Sprinkle with cardamom powder, pistachios and rose petals.
Ready to serve hot.

Gulab Jamun

Ingredients :
1 litre milk
¾ cup sugar
2-3 tsp maida
2 tbsp rose water
1 cup water
1 pinch saffron
1 pinch baking soda
ghee for frying

Method :
Boil milk in a vessel on medium flame. Then mix constantly, till it becomes semi-solid or khova is formed.
Put maida and continue to stir for another few minutes.
Take out from flame and knead the dough. Take a small part of the dough on palm.
Shape into the form of a little finger.
Continue the same procedure for the remaining dough.
Keep the jamoons aside on plate. Add water to sugar.
Heat till the syrup becomes sticky and put saffron stirred in a little rose water and the remaining rose water. Mix well.
Take out from flame.
Fry the jamoons, 3 to 4 at a time, in hot ghee on a low flame, till it turns golden brown, turning over gently.
Put the fried jamoons in warm syrup.
Shift to a vessel, when cool.
Keep aside under cover for sometime.
Serve jamoon with a syrup.