I write this blog post mainly for two reasons –

1. Blogging Marathon time again. yay!

2. More importantly, to serve me as an eternal reminder – Never trust the Husband with grocery shopping. Like never ever!

We travel 100 kms once a month to the ‘nearest’ Indian grocery store. The scene is usually a very crowded shop that is as big as the inside of a truck. Add a usually hungry two year old to the mix and you have pure chaos! To save time, we split the shopping list and on the husband’s share of the list, I wrote – instant gulab jamun mix – 1 pkt. Yup! My mistake. I assumed when you live in a 2 adult household and you need to buy instant gulab jamun mix, you would choose the smaller one. Nah! He chooses the 500 gms packet that makes a 100 Gulab Jamuns. Like 100 of them.

Ever since, I had dreams of crater size gulab jamuns chasing me. 100 of them.

Finally, it hit me. Muffins! So here goes –
WHAT WE NEED (for 9 muffins)

Gulab Jamun Mix – 1 Cup

Bananas 1- 1 1/2 large ripe

Curds / Yogurt. 1/4 Cup

Oil 3 tbsp

Baking powder 1tsp

Baking Soda. 1/2 tsp

Sugar 1/2 Cup

Butterscotch chips – as you wish / totally optional
WHAT TO DO

• Mash the bananas thoroughly. If they are really ripe,nit should be a breeze
• Mix the mashed bananas with oil and curds. Keep aside

• Mix the gulab jamun mix, sugar, baking powder and baking soda.
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients
• Add the butterscotch chips, if you are using them, at this point.

• Pour into a greased muffin tray.

• Bake at 180C for 20-25 minutes till the toothpick inserted comes out clean.

NOTES

1. My muffins did not rise up. I guess I will have to tweak the recipe a bit. Except for that, they were soft and delicious with a good banana flavour.
2. I added the butterscotch chips just because they were at hand and I wanted to use them up too. It’s totally optional though recommended.

 

My dreams are a lot less scary now. Peace!

Do check out what my fellow marathoners have cooked today for BM#55