Name: Gulab jaman
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: ¼ cup of fresh curds (see Paneer); 3 tablespoons flour; a pinch of bicarbonate of soda; 4 cups sugar; ghee for deep-frying; 2 drops rosewater; 1 litre/1¾ pints full cream milk; 2 teaspoons saffron threads; 5 or 6 crushed green cardamom pods

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Floyd's India

By Keith Floyd

Published 2001

About

This is a pretty painstaking pudding but well worth the effort. I suggest you do the boring bit - reducing the milk - the day before.

Ingredients

1 litre/1¾ pints full cream milk
¼ cup of fresh curds (see

Asia
India
West Bengal: Kolkata
Dessert
Vegetarian
Microwave

Method

Bring the milk to the boil, lower the heat and simmer until the milk has reduced byhalf. Now, stirring all the time and scraping the thickened milk from the side of the pan, let it reduce and reduce for about an hour until you have a paste-like consistency. At this stage you can refrigerate it until required.
Mix the curds and the thickened milk together. Stir

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