Today we will learn how to make the rava gulab jamun | Sooji Gulab Jamun Recipe using easy step by step instructions and video.

If you got guests in your house and you don’t have the instant gulab jamun mix do not worry. If you have rava in your house then you can make this rava gulab jamun | Sooji Gulab Jamun Recipe easily.

Gulab jamun can be made in a traditional way using khoya or mawa or using the bread like bread gulab jamun or just using the store bought gulab jamun instant mix. Now you can also make gulab jamun using the rava (also called semolina or sooji). This rava gulab jamun turns out to be as soft as the traditional gulab jamun and also tastes great.

Do try this rava gulab jamun or sooji gulab jamun and let me know how it has turned out to you.

If you like sweet recipes then you can take a look at my other sweet recipes like mango halwa using corn flour, traditional mango halwa, Rava Kesari, Semiya Kesari, Badam halwa, chana dal halwa, pooran poli, Tomato sweet pachadi.

If you like rava or sooji recipes, then do try these recipes like – rava bread toast, rava payasam, rava kichadi, coconut rava payasam, potato rava cutlets, rava idli.

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Rava gulab jamun | Sooji Gulab Jamun Recipe

Gulab jamun can be made in a traditional way using khoya or mawa or using the bread like bread gulab jamun or just using the store bought gulab jamun instant mix. Now you can also make gulab jamun using the rava (also called semolina or sooji). This rava gulab jamun turns out to be as soft as the traditional gulab jamun and also tastes great.

Course Dessert

Cuisine Indian

Keyword Rava gulab jamun

Cook Time 40 minutes minutes

Soaking time 2 hours hours

Total Time 40 minutes minutes

Servings 6

Author Akila

Ingredients

For sugar syrup

• Sugar - 1.5 cups
• Water - 1.5 cups
• Cardamom - 1/4 tsp
• Saffron - a pinch
• Lemon juice - 1/2 tsp optional
• Orange food colour - a pinch optional and added if saffron is not added
• Vanilla or rose essence- 1/2 tsp optional

For making gulab jamun

• Rava sooji / semolina - 1/2 cup
• Milk - 1.5 cup
• Ghee clarified butter - 1.5 tbsp + little for hands
• Salt - 1 or 2 pinch
• Oil for frying

Instructions

• In the heavy bottom pan add sugar and water and mix until the sugar dissolves completely.
• To this add cardamom and pinch of saffron and allow to boil for some time.
• When the sugar reaches single thread consistency then switch off the stove and keep aside the sugar syrup.
• Now in another heavy bottom pan add 1/2 cup of rava and start frying it. Do not fry it till it becomes brown in color. Before that stage itself remove it.
• Now Grind this rava to a fine powder. If you are using fine rava then you can use it as it is. No need to grind it.
• In the same pan add milk and just warm it. No need to boil it.
• Add the ground rava to this and start mixing it immediately. Do not give any gap as it forms lumps and it will be hard to break later.
• When you keep on mixing the mixture becomes thicker. Now and the ghee to this and add a pinch of salt and mix it and switch off the stove when it turns thick but still soft.
• Transfer this to another vessel and start to knead to make it even more softer.
• Apply some ghee on your hands and start making small soft balls. So that the mixture does not stick on your hands.
• Now in another vessel add enough oil to fry the balls. Drop the balls one by one on the hot oil and start frying it. Fry it until it becomes light golden color. Do not over fry it. Also do not fry in very high flame as the outer layer becomes black soon and the inner part will not be cooked.
• Once the balls have turned to light brown color remove it from the oil and add them to the sugar syrup which we have prepared previously.
• Since the sugar syrup would have cool down by now slightly, heat the sugar syrup slightly once the balls are added. Repeat the same process for the other batch of balls.
• Let the balls rest in the sugar syrup for 2 to 3 hours so that it completely absorbs the sugar syrup. After three hours of soaking in sugar syrup the balls would have become very soft gulab jamuns.
• Serve the rava gulab jamuns in a bowl.
• Yummy and tasty rava gulab jamuns are ready.

Notes

Check the below notes... 

Step by step instructions of rava gulab jamun recipe

Instructions

For sugar syrup

• Sugar – 1.5 cups
• Water – 1.5 cups
• Cardamom – 1/4 tsp
• Saffron – a pinch
• Lemon juice – 1/2 tsp (optional)
• Orange food colour – a pinch ( optional and added if saffron is not added)
• Vanilla or rose essence- 1/2 tsp (optional)

For making gulab jamun

• Rava ( sooji / semolina ) – 1/2 cup
• Milk – 1.5 cup
• Ghee (clarified butter) – 1.5 tbsp + little for hands
• Salt – 1 or 2 pinch
• Oil for frying

Method for making rava gulab jamuns | Sooji Gulab Jamun Recipe

1. In the heavy bottom pan add sugar.

2. Add water

3. Allow sugar to dissolve completely.

4. To this add cardamom and pinch of saffron and allow to boil for some time.

5. When the sugar reaches single thread consistency then switch off the stove and keep aside the sugar syrup.

6. Now in another heavy bottom pan add 1/2 cup of rava and start frying it. Do not fry it till it becomes brown in color. Before that stage itself remove it.

7. Now Grind this rava to a fine powder. If you are using fine rava then you can use it as it is. No need to grind it.

8. In the same pan add milk and just warm it. No need to boil it.

9. Add the ground rava to this and start mixing it immediately. Do not give any gap as it forms lumps and it will be hard to break later.

10. When you keep on mixing the mixture becomes thicker. Now and the ghee to this and add a pinch of salt and mix it and switch off the stove when it turns thick but still soft.

11. Transfer this to another vessel and start to knead to make it even more softer.

12. Apply some ghee on your hands and start making small soft balls. So that the mixture does not stick on your hands.

13. Now in another vessel add enough oil to fry the balls. Drop the balls one by one on the hot oil and start frying it.

14. Fry it until it becomes light golden color. Do not over fry it. Also do not fry in very high flame as the outer layer becomes black soon and the inner part will not be cooked. Once the balls have turned to light brown color remove it from the oil.

15. add them to the sugar syrup which we have prepared previously.

17. Since the sugar syrup would have cool down by now slightly, heat the sugar syrup slightly once the balls are added. Repeat the same process for the other batch of balls.

18. Let the balls rest in the sugar syrup for 2 to 3 hours so that it completely absorbs the sugar syrup. After three hours of soaking in sugar syrup the balls would have become very soft gulab jamuns.

19. Serve the rava gulab jamuns in a bowl.

Yummy and tasty rava gulab jamuns are ready.

Notes

1. My rava or sooji is not that fine. So I grind and made to a powder. If you have a fine rava, then you can use as it is without grinding. Also when we make it to a powder form the dough becomes very soft and we can easily knead it and we get very soft gulab jamun.

2. Adding salt is optional, but it enhances the taste.

3. If you like you can add any essence of your choice.

4. Adding saffron or orange food color is purely optional.

5. You need to add the rava when the milk is like warm. Do not boil the milk.

6. Once rava is added to the milk you need to keep stirring or else lumps would be formed and it will be hard to break while kneading. Also once rava is added immediately keep it in low flame.

7. While Frying the rava no need to fry till it becomes light brown. You need to stop before it changes its colour.

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I have not tried the Bread Gulab Jamun before and never expected this to be such an easy alternative to the original Gulab Jamun recipe. Even my mom is new to this and she also surprised by the result. I can definitely say, if you are a Gulab jamun fan, then this Bread Gulab Jamun is also a must try one. 

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Bread Gulab Jamun

Preparation time: 20 min | Cook Time: 20 min | Serves: 5

Recipe Category: Dessert | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

Bread – 8 pieces

Milk powder – 2 tbsp

Water – as needed

Baking Soda – a pinch

Oil for frying

For Sugar Syrup

Sugar – 1.5cups

Water – 2.5cups

Cardamom powder – 2 pinch

Saffron – few strands

Ghee – 1tbsp

Method to prepare Bread Gulab Jamun

1. Remove the sides of the bread and make them to small pieces. 

2. Grind them nicely to a powder form and add the milk powder and the baking soda. 

3. Add little amount of water and smash it to form a soft dough. Make them into equal sized balls ( small lemon size ). Let it rest for sometime. 

4. Meanwhile, add sugar in a vessel and add water. When sugar starts to dissolve, add the saffron, cardamom powder and the ghee. 

5. Now heat the oil and add the balls one by one. Keep the flame in low and Keep rotating the balls for smooth browning on all sides. When they become light brown colour. Remove from oil. 

6. Place them in the hot sugar syrup and leave it for 15min for the balls to absorb sugar syrup. 

7. Tasty and delicious Bread Gulab Jamuns are ready to be served.

So who wants this easy to prepare and yummy Bread Gulab Jamun

Notes:

1. I used milk bread for this. You can use any bread, but try to use unsalted one.
2. Roll the balls smoothly and not too tight. Because, while frying, the inner part might not cook properly, if you roll them tightly.
3. Keep the flame in low, while frying the balls for even cooking and keep rolling the balls.
4. Adding milk powder and cooking soda are purely optional.

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