This is a healthy, nutritious and delicious recipe. As any Indian festival is incomplete without Indian Delicacies like Gulab Jamun so I did a little innovation with traditional Gulab Jamuns making them more nutritious .
INGREDIENTS:
4 potatoes (boiled and mashed)
1 cup oats
1 cup paneer (mashed)
1/2 cup mawa (Khoya)
Cinnamon powder 1 tablespoon
Cardamom powder 1 tablespoon
1/2 cup raisins (kishmish)
5-6 almonds and cashew nuts finely grated
Ghee for frying
For sugar syrup:
Sugar 250 gms
Water
Saffron few strands
METHOD:
TIPS: Oats and aloo as aloo are low in sodium, nearly fat free and easy to digest and also are highly effective in relieving high blood pressure. Potatos are also rich in vitamin B6 which aids in building and repairing body cells. Oats are highly beneficial for our health as these lower the cholesterol levels and enhance immune system for infections and also stabilize blood sugar level in our body. Oats helps in controlling blood pressure, reduces the risk of heart disease, enhances immune response to infections.
Recipe by: Mrs Nirmal Kapur (Contest Winner)
INGREDIENTS:
4 potatoes (boiled and mashed)
1 cup oats
1 cup paneer (mashed)
1/2 cup mawa (Khoya)
Cinnamon powder 1 tablespoon
Cardamom powder 1 tablespoon
1/2 cup raisins (kishmish)
5-6 almonds and cashew nuts finely grated
Ghee for frying
For sugar syrup:
Sugar 250 gms
Water
Saffron few strands
METHOD:
- In a pan, dry roats oats and keep them aside.
- Wash aloo properly and then boil them.
- Take a bowl and gently mix the boiled mashed potatoes, dry roasted oats, paneer and mawa altogether to make it a smooth mixture.
- Add finely grated almonds and cashew nuts in it and mix it well.
- Make round balls and in the middle of each ball place 1 kismish.
- Take a kadai and add ghee and deep fry these balls.\
- Take them out on a paper napkin.
- Now to make sugar syrup, take water and add sugar and bring to a 2-3 boil. Sieve the syrup and add few strands of saffron.
- Now, put all the gulab jamun in this sugar syrup for at least 10 minutes.
- Serve hot or cold but they taste yummy when they are just made and serve hot.
TIPS: Oats and aloo as aloo are low in sodium, nearly fat free and easy to digest and also are highly effective in relieving high blood pressure. Potatos are also rich in vitamin B6 which aids in building and repairing body cells. Oats are highly beneficial for our health as these lower the cholesterol levels and enhance immune system for infections and also stabilize blood sugar level in our body. Oats helps in controlling blood pressure, reduces the risk of heart disease, enhances immune response to infections.
Recipe by: Mrs Nirmal Kapur (Contest Winner)