Bread Gulabjam – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

For Sugar Syrup:

• Heat up sauce pan on high heat.
• Add sugar and water.
• Mix well and bring the mixture to boil.
• When sugar dissolves completely and mixture boils lower down the heat to medium.
• Cook syrup on medium heat for another 5-6 minutes.
• The syrup should not have any thread consistency. It should be just sticky.
• Turn off the gas and add cardamom powder.
• You also can add a drop of rose essence too if you have.
• Mix well and syrup is ready.

For Stuffing:

• In a bowl take gulkand.
• Add dry nuts and a little cardamom powder.
• Mix well and stuffing is ready. Keep it aside.

For Gulabjam:

• Take bread slices and remove the edges.
• Cut the bread into pieces and transfer these into a blender jar.
• Blend the bread into powder as we make breadcrumbs.
• Transfer the blended bread into a dish.
• Add baking soda and ghee.
• Mix everything well together.
• Add a little milk at a time and knead dough.
• Bread absorbs moisture. Add milk accordingly.
• The dough should neither be too thick nor too thin.
• Cover and rest the dough for about 10 minutes.
• Take the stuffing and make small balls from it.
• Take a small portion of dough and make it nice and smooth.
• Press it at the center to make pari as we make for modak.
• Fill the stuffing and close the pari from all sides.
• Make these smooth and even. There should not be any cracks.
• Heat up oil on medium heat.
• When oil is enough hot lower down the heat to low.
• Drop the gulabjam into hot oil.
• Fry gulabjam on very low heat until these turn nice and even golden form all sides.
• Take the gulabjam out and drop these into hot syrup.
• Make sure that the syrup is hot while dropping hot gulabjam in it.
• Soak the gulabjam in syrup for at least 1 hour.
• Bread gulabjam are already.
• You can make 6 gulabjam from 4 bread slices.
• You can skip the stuffing if you don’t want.
• Also you can fill the stuffing in your regular gulabjam.