Indian Festive Sweet Rice And Jamun Bhog Recipe

Light up this Diwali Dinner table not only with colorful diyas and rangoli but also celebrate more with your homemade traditional festive sweets. Sweet Rice and Jamun Bhog recipe is my version of Sita Bhog, a Bengali sweet which we usually buy from sweet shops in Kolkata. Course : Dessert Ingridients : Sweet Rice: 1/2 cup Govind Bhog Rice 1 cup Sugar 11/2 cups Water Rose water , a few drops 1 teaspoon Cardamom Powder (Elaichi) 2 Bay leaf (tej patta) 2 teaspoon Ghee Saffron strands , for garnish Mini Jamun: 200 grams Paneer (Homemade Cottage Cheese) 3 tablespoon All Purpose Flour (Maida) 3 tablespoon Caster Sugar 1 Cardamom Powder (Elaichi) 3 tablespoon Ghee Saffron strands , a few Sugar Syrup: 1 cup Sugar 1-1/2 cup Water Instructions To make the Indian Festive Sweet Rice And Jamun Bhog recipe, first we will prepare the sweet rice so let's wash the rice and soak for 10 minutes.Heat a large heavy bottomed saucepan with ghee and fry the rice.Add green cardamom and bay leaf .Pour in water, rose water and sugar and let the rice cook on medium to low flame. Once the rice is cooked completely spread on a plate to cool. Drain any excess water in the rice if there is any.Sprinkle Kesar all over the rice.Now let's make the sugar syrup for the jamuns. Take a small saucepan and add both sugar and water and let it boil to a syrup consistency.Finally to  make the jamuns, take a big plate and mash the paneer, sugar powder, cardamom powder, kesar and flour with your palm. The mixture should become smooth. Shape the paneer mixture in mini oval jamuns .Meanwhile, heat ghee in a frying pan and fry the mini jamuns till golden brown in few at a time and transfer in hot sugar syrup. Let it rest for 15 minutes.You can serve Indian Festive Sweet Rice And Jamun Bhog Recipe with  Matar Ki Puri and  Kasuri Methi Aur Aloo Rasedar .