Cuisine: Uttar Pradesh
Category: Dessert
Prep: 10 min
Cook: 15 min
Serves: 8
Difficulty: Easy
🌿 Vegetarian
Soft sweet fried wheat flour dumplings flavoured with fennel and jaggery — the Holi festival sweet of rural UP made across the state.
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour (atta)
- 1/4 cup jaggery — dissolved in 1/4 cup warm water
- 1/4 tsp fennel seeds (saunf) — coarsely crushed
- 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
- A pinch of baking soda
- Oil for deep frying
Method
- Combine whole wheat flour with fennel seeds, cardamom powder and a pinch of baking soda.
- Add the dissolved jaggery water gradually, mixing into a thick, smooth batter — slightly thicker than pancake batter.
- The batter should fall slowly from a spoon.
- Rest 10 minutes.
- Heat oil for deep frying on medium.
- Drop heaped teaspoon portions of batter into the hot oil — they will form rough round balls.
- Fry on medium heat for 3 to 4 minutes turning regularly until deep golden brown and cooked through.
- The jaggery caramelises giving them a deep brown colour.
- Drain on paper towels.
- Cool slightly before eating — the hot jaggery centre is very hot.
- Gulgulas become denser as they cool.