Jilebi:(Sour Sweet)

Ingredients:

All purpose flour (maida) 2 cups
Rice flour 1/4 cup
Baking powder1/4 spoon
Curd (plain yogurt) 1 cu
Warm water 1 cup
Saffron threads 1/2 spoon, carefully roasted and powdered(or using few spoons of milk wet grind in manual mortar and pestle)
Sugar 3 cups
1/2 tsp green cardamom seeds powder
Rose Water 1 -2 cups
Ghee or vegetable oil for frying

Method:

Mix the flour, rice flour, baking powder, curd and warm water in a bowl (preferably a ceramic bowl). Mix well with a whisk. The batter should be in runny consistency.

Mix well and then add remaining water and saffron powder, until smooth. Set aside for about 2 hours to ferment.

Prepare string Consistency syrup by heating sugar plus rose water. Just before the syrup is ready add saffron and cardamom powder.

Heat ghee in a pan.

Pour the batter in Ketchup bottle(fresh ketchup bottle) fill the prepared batter in this. Just holding above the the hot oil. Make drop the batter into desired coils shape. Maybe not to big coils. Limit to 3-5 inches size. Make a few at a time.

Deep fry them until they are golden and crisp all over but not brown.

Remove from the pan and drain on kitchen paper and immerse in the syrup.
Leave for at least 4-5 minutes in the syrup.

Take them out of syrup and serve hot. One can store them in fridge and serve them chilled too. As per preference.