Choco Jamun - Chocolate Deep Fried Balls

Choco Jamun

This recipe is from Master Chef Sanjeev Kapoor

Ingredients

300 gms. Khoya/mawa

50 gms cottage cheese (chenna)

a pinch of bi-carbonate of soda - baking soda

4 Tbsps. refined flour (maida)

2 Tbsps. cocoa powder

1 Tbsp. drinking chocolate

5 cups sugar

3 Tbsps. chocolate chips(optional)

Ghee to deep fry

Method of Preparation

1. Grate fresh khoya and chenna into a bowl. Dissolve soda bi-carbonate in one tablespoon of water. Sieve together refined flour, cocoa powder and drinking chocolate.

2. Add sieved flour, cocoa powder, drinking chocolate, dissolved soda bi-carbonate to the grated khoya and chenna and mix gently to make a dough.

3. Heat together sugar and two and a half cups of water to make a thin syrup and keep it warm.

4. Make small softballs of even size of the khoya mixture. If you wish you can stuff these balls with the chocolate chips.

5. Heat ghee in a kadai and deep-fry the balls, a few at a time, till golden on low heat. While frying agitate the ghee occasionally over the balls, using a perforated spoon, very carefully without touching them.

6. Drain and soak them in the sugar syrup. Serve hot.