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Home » Holiday Recipes » Valentine's Day » Heart shaped & Stuffed Gulab Jamun | Indian Sweet recipe | Valentine Treat

Heart shaped & Stuffed Gulab Jamun | Indian Sweet recipe | Valentine Treat

Published: Feb 13, 2013 · Modified: Nov 4, 2019

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Gulab jamun is one of the simplest, finest and most authentic recipe from Bharath. Milk powder/Mava and maida/all purpose flour is formed to a dough and deep fried. These fried balls are soaked in a simple syrup infused with cardamom. Cardamom takes all our desserts to another level. Its definitely the king of spices when it comes to desserts. These fried balls soak up all that sugar syrup and become spongy and soft which just melts in your mouth.

Now a days we find the ready made mix at the stores, making it that much easy to whip up this dessert. Today I took the short cut and used the store bought pack I already had at home. But I am going to give you the recipe which I have used earlier which comes out pretty good. Today I stuffed some of the jamun’s with some candy ( you can use either chocolate chips, M & M’s, chocolate) Or you can use some chopped nuts as well. I also made few heart shaped jamun’s apt for Valentines day which is around the corner. For garnish, added some slivered almonds right before serving.

Sending this to Vardhini for Sweet Luv 2013 event.

Recipe:

(Makes about 15 Jamun’s)

Ingredients:

To make the dough:

  1. Milk powder- ¾ th cup
  2. All purpose flour/Maida -2 tbsps
  3. Baking soda- ¼th tsp
  4. Milk- 2 tbsps
  5. Ghee/ Clarified butter-1 tbsp
  6. Oil for deep frying the jamun’s

                  OR

Store bought instant gulab jamun mix 100 gms pk- 1

For the sugar syrup:

  1. Sugar- 2 cups
  2. Water- 2 ¼th cup
  3. Few cardamom pods
  4. Few saffron strands ( optional)

And few slivered almonds for garnish

 
        
  • Make a simple syrup by adding the water and sugar. Let the sugar melt completely. Now add the cardamom and saffron  (optional) and  simmer  for five more minutes. Turn off the heat.                                                                         
  • Mix all the dry ingredients and slowly incorporate the milk little at a time to make a dough. Make sure there are no lumps in the dough. Divide the dough to 15 equal parts. Apply some ghee to your palms and make 15 round ball.
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  • For the stuffed Gulab jamun– take one of the dough balls flatten it like you see in the picture put tabout 3 mini chocolate chips or M & M’s and bring them together and make a round ball again. Make sure the stuffing does not come out.
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  • For the heart shaped Gulab jamun– take some dough flatten it with your palms. To get he heart haped you can either use a cookie cutter or a butter knife. I just used the butter knife to make the heart shapes.
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  • Now take oil for deep frying. Keep it on low- medium heat and drop the balls about four at a time. Slowly fry them, by moving them around so they are cooked evenly on all sides. It’s very important to keep the temperature to low and cook them slowly. If not the the jamun’s will brown on the outside and still uncooked inside.
  • Remove the fried balls in a paper towel and continuing frying the rest.
  • Add the fried balls to the sugar syrup. make sure they are completely immersed in the syrup. Let sit for at least an hour before serving.
  • Right before serving, you can add some silvered almonds for some crunch.

Cook’s tip:
  1. It’s very important to keep the temp low while frying. If not the fried balls will not be cooked inside.
  2. Donot boil the sugar syrup too much, if that happens the sugar syrup tends to crystallize.
  3. If you prefer your jamun’s with just enough softness, add little less sugar syrup.
  4. After you fry the balls, let them rest for at least five minutes before putting them in the sugar syrup. 

Recipe Courtesy: Show me the curry

                                                           

 
 
Check out some of my other dessert recipes apt for Valentine’s Day:

Rasgulla Ice Cream

Chocolate Hazelnut Ravioli

Chocolate chip Banana Cupcakes

Panettone Trifle

 
 
 

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Comments

  1. Madhavi K

    April 27, 2013 at 1:39 pm

    Thanks for trying and letting me know. I hope you and your family enjoyed the jamuns.

    Reply
  2. Rambabu Uppada

    April 27, 2013 at 1:19 pm

    I tried to follow your steps in making gulab jamuns, it was soft and delicious. Your way of presentation is very simple and easy to follow.

    Reply
  3. Divya Pramil

    February 23, 2013 at 1:29 pm

    Superb idea sis 🙂 Will try this next time I make jamuns 🙂

    Reply
  4. Shama Nagarajan

    February 20, 2013 at 12:06 pm

    wow..delicious and tempting .

    Ongoing event:
    FAST FOOD EVENT -MUSHROOM
    in my blog.

    Reply
  5. Manju

    February 19, 2013 at 4:56 pm

    Awesome work Madhavi…i can’t imagine the patience u have to make heart shaped gulab jamuns…and those chocolate stuffed one…oh My! delicious!!
    Good job here, give a pat on your back from me 🙂

    Reply
    • Madhavi K

      February 19, 2013 at 5:02 pm

      Thanks Manju! I made only few of the heart shaped and stuffed jamun’s.It wasn’t that bad.

      Reply
  6. Dipti Joshi

    February 18, 2013 at 5:22 am

    So tempting! I will surely try this.

    Reply
  7. Veena Theagarajan

    February 16, 2013 at 1:48 pm

    cute looking jamuns

    Reply
  8. Padhu

    February 16, 2013 at 11:25 am

    Awesome!!

    Reply
  9. kausers kitchen

    February 15, 2013 at 4:05 pm

    Jamuns look so cute, very tempting.

    Reply
  10. Kitchen Queen

    February 15, 2013 at 2:38 pm

    nice idea with shape.

    Reply
  11. Sangeetha

    February 14, 2013 at 3:51 pm

    wow…very juicy n tempting jamuns, loved the stuffing idea!
    am ur new follower :)Thanks for following Spicy Treats!

    Reply
    • Madhavi K

      February 16, 2013 at 10:40 am

      Thanks Sangeetha!

      Reply
  12. Ramya Krishnamurthy

    February 14, 2013 at 8:26 am

    so sweet jamuns:)

    Reply
  13. Amy

    February 14, 2013 at 1:03 pm

    look so cute and delicious!!

    Reply
  14. Latha Madhusudhan

    February 14, 2013 at 5:27 am

    Happy valentines Day!

    Lovely heart g. jamoon.

    Reply
  15. Vardhini

    February 14, 2013 at 5:53 am

    Wow .. tempting. Perfect for V-Day.

    Vardhini
    Event: Sweet Luv – 2013

    Reply
  16. Sai Padma priya

    February 13, 2013 at 5:46 pm

    Heart shaped jamuns for valentines,quite lip smacking

    Reply
  17. Arthy Suman

    February 13, 2013 at 4:25 pm

    Yummy….jamuns for perfect celebration…

    Reply
  18. Madhavi K

    February 13, 2013 at 2:30 pm

    Thanks Manjula!

    Reply
  19. Manjula Bharath

    February 13, 2013 at 2:16 pm

    wow wonderful explanation and nice idea of making heart shaped gulab jamun dear .. they look cute 🙂

    Reply
    • Madhavi K

      February 16, 2013 at 10:39 am

      Thanks Manjula!

      Reply
  20. Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj

    February 13, 2013 at 3:27 pm

    wow what an innovative… really very very drool worth recipe…

    Reply
    • Madhavi K

      February 16, 2013 at 10:39 am

      Thanks Vijaya!

      Reply

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