Description
Elo Jhelo is a crunchy traditional Bengali Sweet-flavored snack. this is mostly prepared during Durgapuja.
Ingredients
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To make Dough:
- 2 cups Maida / All Purpose Flour
- 1/4 cup or less Water to make a tight dough
- 2 Tsp. Ghee
- 300ml White Oil for deep frying
- 1/4 Tsp. Salt
- 1/4 Tsp. Baking Soda
To make Syrup:
- 1.5 cup Sugar
- 1/2 cup Water
- 4 Green Cardamom
Instructions
- Take Maida along with salt and baking powder in a deep bottom bowl and mix properly.
- Add 1 tbsp. Ghee and 1 tbsp. White oil to the Maida and kneed for 3-4 minutes to get a sand-like mixture.
- Add very little water while kneading and knead again for 4-5 minutes.
- We need the tight dough to make perfect “Elo Jhelo”.
- Cover the dough and give it a stand of 30 minutes.
- Take the dough and divide it into small ping pong ball-sized proportions.
- From 2 cups of Maida, we’ll get around 20 balls.
- Now take one ball and roll it with the help of a rolling pin into a small round disk of 4-5” diameter (something like a Luchi / Puri).
- Take a sharp knife and make parallel slits on the flattened disk.
- Leave a 0.5-inch gap in both the edges of the disk. It should look like the picture given below.
- Now hold both the side and lightly press to join the sides as shown in the picture.
- Following the process mentioned prepare Elo Jhelos using the remaining dough.
- Take Sufficient White oil in a wok/pan and heat the oil properly.
- The temperature of the oil plays a major role in preparing perfect Elo Jhelo.
- We don’t need extra hot Oil for preparing Elo Jhelo as we need to fry them on medium heat.
- Deep fry all the Elo Jhelos. Those have to be golden brown in color and Crisp from the inside.
- Cool down the Elo Jhelos completely.
- Take sugar and water in a deep pan and cook for 3-4 minutes in high heat to get sticky syrup.
- We need a 2 string Sugar syrup for making Elo Jhelos.
- When you have the perfect consistency of the syrup switch off the flame.
- Add fried Elo Jhelos in the sugar syrup and dip those in the Sugar Syrup for 15-20 seconds to coat properly.
- Take the Elo Jhelos out on a lightly greased plate and give them an hour of standing time.
- Store Elo Jhelos in an airtight container.
- Prep Time: 40 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Sweet
- Method: Cooking
- Cuisine: Bengali
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 50g
- Calories: 197
- Sugar: 6.7g
- Sodium: 48mg
- Fat: 14.4g
- Saturated Fat: 2.1g
- Carbohydrates: 16.3g
- Fiber: 0.4g
- Protein: 1.3g
- Cholesterol: 1mg
