Sweet potato gulabjamun

Ingredients:

Sweet potato : 1 Medium size

Milk powder : 3 cups (I used rice cup)

Maida : 1/2 cup

For syrup:

Sugar : 2 cups

Water : 2 cups

Elachi powder : 1/2 tbsp

Vanilla Essence : 1/2 tbsp

Oil : To deep fry

Method:

For Jamuns:

Cook the sweet potato untill soft. Peel of the skin and mash it

Add milk powder to the sweet potato paste along with maida.

Make it into dough and knead well untill soft.

Keep aside for about 15 minutes.

Make small balls and deep fry in oil on low heat untill golden brown.

Add them to the sugar syrup immediately after removing them from oil.

For syrup:

In a heavy bottomed vessel take sugar and water and put it on a medium flame.

Stir untill the sugar gets dissolved in water.

Add the elachi powder and vanilla essence.

Let the water come to boil, and put the syrup on low flame untill all the jamuns are added to the syrup.

Drop the fried jamuns into the sugar syrup.

Remove from heat and let it cool.

These gulabjamuns taste very good the next day.

Enjoy the delicious sweetpotato jamuns.

This goes to Srivalli who is hosting a wonderful event of Mithai Mela.