Paneer Khoya Gulab Jamun Stuffed With Dry Fruits

Paneer Khoya Gulab Jamun Stuffed With Dry Fruits

Ingredients 

Oil for deep frying
200 gms cottage cheese (soft paneer)
3 tbsp milk powder
½ t/s cardamom powder
100 gms khoya / mava
1 tbsp hot milk Or as required
2 tbsp clarified butter (ghee)
2-3 tbsp arrowroot powder/ flour
1 t/s baking powder
a pinch of salt
300 kg sugar
150 ml water
1 t/s rose water
1.5 tbsp pistachio flakes for stuffing
1.5 tbsp almond flakes for stuffing
few saffron strands for garnish

Method 

You could make cottage cheese (chena) at home Or use readymade cottage cheese. If you want to make chena at home. Take about 1 ltr milk and place for boiling. Once it reaches it's boiling point add 1 tbsp vinegar Or ½ lime juice.
The milk will start to curdle. Switch off and keep aside for 5 mins. Now strain this mixture over a line cloth. Collect the milk solids and place a heavy weight over it for 2 hrs. Your chena is ready to be used. You could use the whey for kneading the dough.
For Gulab Jamuns sift all dry ingredients like arrowroot flour,milk powder, salt and baking powder. Also add cardamom powder, khoya and cottage cheese.
Now add clarified butter, hot milk, saffron and pinch of salt. Knead into a soft and smooth dough. Add little more milk if dough is too dry.
Divide into 20 balls stuffed chopped nuts and cover with a damp cloth. Meanwhile let's make our sugar syrup.
Boil water with sugar in a pan. I have used organic sugar hence couldn't fine scum. But if there is scum then please remove it with the help of spoon.
Cook syrup on low heat until it's thickened and reaches thread like consistency.
Now add pistachio, rose water and almond flakes to the syrup ( optional )
Take a deep pan add oil. Once oil is hot fry the nuts stuffed balls until golden brown from all sides. Remove the fried balls with slotted spoon.
Place them over absorbent napkins for 2 mins. Transfer these fried balls over the warm sugar syrup one by one.
Leave the balls into the syrup for 2 hrs Or until they absorb the water and swells. Serve them warm Or chilled.