Apple Jalebi is an exotic Indian dessert served warm with chilled rabri (thickened saffron flavoured milk). This dessert is a pure indulgence and sinful! The apple fritters are coated with a batter and deep fried till golden and topped with rabri.
It is a dish of lots of textures and flavour combination, mainly having rosy notes.
Ingredients
Apple jalebi:
- 2 medium apples
- 1 cup refined flour
- 1 tbsp. + 1 tsp sugar
- Ghee/Oil for deep-frying
- 1/2 tsp green cardamom powder
- 2 tbsp dried and ground rose petals ( optional)
- 1/2 tsp dry yeast
- 1 tsp rose water
- Sliced pistachios for garnishing
- Fresh/dried rose petals for garnishing( optional)
- Icing sugar 4 tbsp + 1/4 tsp ground green cardamom
Rabri
- 1 litre milk (full fat)
- 4 tablespoons Sugar or you can use ¼ cup condensed milk and lessen the sugar.
- 1/2 teaspoon Green Cardamom Powder
- 3-5 strands Saffron (kesar)
- 10 Pistachios and almonds, sliced
Method for Rabri
- In a small bowl, soak the saffron strands in 2-4 tbsp of warm milk, till use.
- Boil milk in a broad, heavy based, pan or broad non-stick pan over medium flame.
- When milk starts to boil, reduce flame to low. Stir at regular intervals of 3-4 minutes but not continuously. When layer of a cream appears on the surface, shift it towards the side of a pan. Do the same process for next cream layers. Cook until milk is reduced to 1/3 of original quantity.
- Add sugar and stir to dissolve it. Add cardamom powder, sliced almonds, soaked saffron milk and sliced pistachio; mix well.
- Scrape small cream chunks collected on the side of pan into milk (this will make delicious small cream chunks in rabdi). Cook for 2 minutes and turn off flame. Let it return to room temperature naturally. Serve warm or chilled.
Method for Apple Jalebi ( Fritters)
- Core apples and cut into thin slices, like discs.
- Combine yeast, 1 tsp sugar and lukewarm water in a bowl, mix well.
- Let the yeast dissolve completely.
- Combine flour, cardamom powder, rose water, dissolved yeast and 1 tbsp. sugar in a bowl.
- Add water and mix well to make a thick batter.
- Set aside for 15 minutes.
- Heat sufficient oil in a fryer.
- Dip apple slices in the batter and deep-fry in ghee till golden. Place on a tea towel, dust with cardamom icing sugar.
Assembly
On a plate , place 2-3 fritters and pour 3 tbsp of rabri on them and serve. You may serve these fritters with ice cream instead of rabri.
Notes for Rabri
- You can make it in lesser time by using readymade sweet condensed milk. However, it will not have texture comparable to one prepared with this recipe. If you are using sweet condensed milk, then reduce the quantity of sugar accordingly.
- Do not stir it too much while cooking otherwise you may not get its signature texture (very small chunks of cream in thickened milk).
- Never use thin-based pan to cook it because milk will stick to the bottom and spoil the taste.
Happy Cooking
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