Imriti is a popular sweet from north India.It is known as Jhangri usually in south India.Imriti looks somewhat like Jaleabi but is completely different as per the ingredients and texture is considered.To designers a Imriti can be bit difficult for beginners but as they say practice can make you perfect.
Ingredients:-Â ( Serve 12 )
- 1 cup Split Black gram / Urad dal
- 2 cup Sugar
- 2 tbsp Cornflour or Rice flour
- 2 cup Water
- 1/2 tsp Green cardamom / Hari elachi powder
- 1 tsp Screwpine water / Kavda jal
- 1/2 tsp Orange food colour
- 1/2 tsp Lemon juice
- Oil or ghee for frying
Method:-
- Rinse urad dal couple of times and then keep it soaked for 4-5 hours in 1 cup Water.
- Grind into fine thick paste adding couple of teaspoons of water if required
- Add 1/4 teaspoons food colour and cornflour into the made urad dal paste
- Beat the mix for 5-7 min to incorporate air.
- Fill the urad batter in a piping bag.
- Make a sticky sugar syrup with sugar adding 1 cup Water.
- To this syrup add 1/4 tsp or pinch of orange food colour,elachi powder,kavda Jal and lemon juice.
- Pipe Imriti in medium hot Oil and fry them crispy flipping in between over low.
- Strain and then drop Imriti in warm Sugar syrup.Keep for atleast 10 minutes and then strain out.
- Serve warm.
Tips :
- Don’t keep too much Oil for frying,otherwise your Imriti will keep on floating while you are still piping them.( This will make difficult for you to pipe them )
- Use a wide flat open mouthed vessel for frying.