Gulab Jamuns (made with milk powder)

Ingredients

1 cup skimmed milk powder

1/4 cup all purpose flour (maida)

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

milk to knead the dough

ghee (clarified butter) for frying the jamuns

1 cup sugar

1 1/2 cups water

2 to 3 pinches of cardamom powder

4 tablespoons mixture of chopped nuts - almonds, pistachios, cashews

a few strands of saffron

Method

Mix the milk powder, baking powder and all purpose flour and knead into a dough with milk. Be careful to add very little milk - as the milk powder absorbs liquid fast and get mushy. You may not require more than 1/4 cup milk. Add 1 teaspoon of ghee and mix well - this is done to avoid the mixture from sticking to your fingers.  Leave the dough for half an hour to set.

Make a mixture of the water and sugar and bring it to a boil. When it boils - add the saffron, cardamom and the chopped nuts. Place this mixture in a serving bowl.

Make small balls of the dough - you should be able to make about 25 to 28 balls.  Fry them in ghee at medium heat - they will take about 7 to 10 minutes to get golden brown. Once done - remove them from the ghee and add it to the hot sugar syrup.

let it stand for 45 minutes to an hour - this way the sugar syrup goes deep into the jamuns.

You can eat it hot or cold.