Instant Jilapi
- By: Zurana Masud
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- | On: June 20 2015
Description
Instant Jilapi

Author: Zurana
Recipe type: Sweet/Misty
Cuisine: Bangladeshi, Indian
Serves: 10 people
Prep Time : 30 minutes.
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Ingredients
- For Jilapi Batter:
- Plain Flour or Rice flour - 1/2 cup
- Gram flour (Basan) - 1/2 cup
- Water
- For Sugar Syrup:
- Sugar - 1 1/2 cup
- Lemon juice - 1 teaspoon
- Yellow food color - 3-4 drops
- Water - 1 1/2 cup
- Oil for deep frying
Instructions
For the jilapi batter:
- Mix the flour and basan together.
- Mix the flour mixture and yellow food colour with 2/3 cup of water to make a thick batter, making sure no lumps remain.
- Keep aside for 20 minutes.
For the sugar syrup:
- In a pan dissolve the sugar with 1/2 cup of water and simmer for 5 minutes till the syrup is of 2 string consistency.
- Add lemon juice and mix.
- Remove from the heat and keep aside.
Making Jilapi:
- Heat the oil/ghee in a broad fry pan.
- The oil should be approximately 1 inch deep.
- Fill the jilapi batter into a piping bag with a small hole in the center or sauce bottle which is finished with button-hole stitch.
- Pipe the batter in circles and cross the circle to ensure that the spiral stays together.
- Pipe around 4-5 jilapis at a time.
- Turn the jilapis when firm.
- Cook on a low flame till the bubbles die out.
- Fry to a light golden brown.
- Remove the jilapis in to a warm syrup and allow the jilapis to soak the syrup (approx.. 3-4 minutes).
- Drain immediately and serve hot.