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Time To Get Creative With Mangoes!

June 04, 2022 12:51 IST

Chef Ajay Thakur's yummy Jalebi Baby brings together two hard to resist summer delights -- jalebi and aamrakhand or mango shrikhand.

Photograph: Kind courtesy Bayroute

Jalebi Baby

Serves: 2

Ingredients

For the jalebi batter

For the sugar syrup

For the aamrakhand mousse

To assemble

Method

For the jalebi

For the sugar syrup

For the aamrakhand mousse

To assemble

Note: A one-thread syrup is sugar syrup viscous enough to pass the one-thread test.
It is important to keep testing for consistency while the sugar syrup is boiling.
The test for this is: Dip a spatula, preferably wooden, into the boiling sugar syrup and take out.
Some syrup would have coated the spatula.
Let it cool.
Touch the cooled syrup with your forefinger. Some syrup will come onto your finger.
Touch that with your thumb and separate thumb from forefinger.
When one little continuous delicate thread is formed by the syrup, when the coated forefinger is pulled away from your thumb, you have one-thread consistency sugar syrup.

For a vegan version of this recipe, use vegan yoghurt in the jalebi batter and skip the aamrakhand mousse. Instead make aamrakhand out of vegan yoghurt and chopped mango pieces.

Chef Ajay Thakur is the corporate chef at Bayroute, a restaurant in Mumbai.

Chef AJAY THAKUR