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Kalajamnu
By : Rehana Khambaty
Category : Bengali sweets, Paneer
Servings : 2
Time Taken : 15-30 mins
Rating :
Method
  1. Grind the paneer to a paste and mix in 6 tbsps. sugar, maida, arrowroot, khoya and baking powder and knead to a smooth mixture.
  2. Take a little of this mixture and mix in enough red colour to give it a bright red colour and 1 tbsp. sugar.
  3. Form this mixture into tiny balls not bigger than peas.
  4. Form the paneer mixture into lime-sized balls around red balls and set aside.
  5. Put half litre water in sugar and prepare a syrup of one thread consistency.
  6. Remove from fire and set aside.
  7. Heat enough ghee for deep frying to smoking, lower the heat
  8. Fry a few jamuns to a time over a very gentle fire till they turn black.
  9. Drain and put into the prepared syrup.
  10. Sprinkle essence on top and set aside whole night.
  11. Next morning, drain out from the syrup, roll into ground sugar and put in pastry cases.
Ingredients:
200 g - paneer
1 1/2 kg - sugar
250 g - ground sugar
50 g - maida
50 g - khoya
25 g - arrowroot
a pinch - baking powder
1 tsp - essence of rose or kewda
a few drops - red food colour
pastry cases
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