Sweet Potato Gulab Jamun/Shakarkandi Gulab Jamun/Sakkaravalli Kizhangu Jamun

Happy Diwali wishes to you all.. Have a safe and joyful festival!!!!

Indian cuisine is vast and varieties of sweets do exists especially during festival time. Obviously its not that much easy to make all the sweets which exists in Indian cuisine, though  many of those sweets are easy to make. Gulab jamun, this sweet is a star among the sweets. We Indians make often this sweet for the festival especially during Diwali.Even i have tried couple of jamuns and still i have few more to make. You can make this succulent,juicy and spongy jamuns with different methods, the easiest one is with store bought mix which is quite often in every Indian stores. If you want to make the traditional way by simmering the milk and making khoya out of it, which is later used for making the jamun dough asks for a long cooking process, else one more method of making jamuns is with milk powder, i have already tried these methods and even a jamun with potatoes, yes you read it rite, i have already prepared Aloo jamuns aka potato jamuns.

Here comes my jamun list:
Bread Gulab Jamun
Gulab Jamun - Version 1
Gulab Jamun Version 2
Gulab Jamun Version 3
Zero Oil Baked Gulab Jamun
Rose Malai Jamun
Aloo Jamun/Potato Jamun
Dry Jamun
Kala Jamun with Khoya

And now am adding this sweet potato aka shakarkandi gulab jamun to the interesting jamun list.Sweet potato works awesome to make this amazing gulab jamuns and they came out simply fabulous. Trust me these jamuns are easy to make with less ingredients and you doesnt need anything special to make this ultimate jamuns.

4nos Sweet Potatoes (medium sized & cooked)
2tbsp All purpose Flour/maida
A pinch baking soda

Sugar syrup:
2cups Sugar
1cup Water
3nos Cardamom pods
2drops Rose essence

Mash the cooked sweet potatoes well and keep aside.

Combine the baking soda in a mixing bowl, add the maida to it and mix well.

Now add the mashed sweet potatoes and knead everything as a smooth dough without adding water, if the dough is still sticky,add few more flour.

Keep aside for 10-15minutes.

Grease your palm with little oil and pinch out lemon sized balls out of the dough.

Meanwhile prepared the sugar syrup with sugar and water.

Heat it in medium flame until the sugar gets dissloves,add the essence, crushed cardamom pods and cook for few more minutes until you get a single string constitency.

Heat the oil for frying, keep in medium flame, fry the rolled balls in medium flame until they turns golden brown.

Cook in lower flame else the balls wont get well cooked inside.

Fry the balls in small batch,drop the fried balls to the sugar syrup.

Let it soak for 2hours and serve.