🇮🇳 How to Make Jalebi

Craving Jalebi? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Jalebi at home, in about 45 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 1 cup flour + 1 tbsp cornstarch + ¼ tsp turmeric
• ¾ cup yogurt + ¼ cup water
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• Syrup: 1½ cups sugar + ¾ cup water + 6 cardamom pods + 1 tsp lemon juice
• oil for frying
• a squeeze bottle (or a zip bag with a corner snipped)

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Whisk flour, cornstarch, turmeric, yogurt and water into a thick batter. Let it sit 2 hours — patience makes the tang.
2. Boil the syrup ingredients 6 min until slightly sticky. Keep it warm.
3. Stir the soda into the batter, load your bottle. The batter should fall in a slow ribbon.
4. Pipe spirals into 170°C oil, 3 rounds each. The first few will look like modern art — keep going, spiral #4 clicks.
5. Fry 2 min per side until crisp, then dunk in the warm syrup for 30 seconds a side.
6. Eat hot, whole, while it's still crackly. Syrup on your chin means you did it right.