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In fact, when Singh offered us more of a trickily sweet ball-shaped dessert called gulab jamun, a favourite in India, we begged him to stop.
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The Bene Israel in India prepare a fried milk pastry called gulab jamun.
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The Bene Israel in India prepare a fried milk pastry called gulab jamun.
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The colours can seem vulgar, the sugar content too high for uninitiated palates – just two little balls of my favourite, gulab jamun (a fried sweet of milky dough bathed in syrup) can be as much as 380 calories.
How to make Indian sweets Homa Khaleeli 2010
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Indian sweets like the immaculate barfi (condensed milk squares), kulfi (sweet, creamy traditional Indian ice cream) and the delectable gulab jamun (fried dough balls swimming in rosewater syrup) could all be after-dinner favorites for an Indian gastrodiplomacy campaign.
Paul Rockower: Indian Gastrodiplomacy to Help Feed Perceptions of an Emergent India Paul Rockower 2011
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Indian sweets like the immaculate barfi (condensed milk squares), kulfi (sweet, creamy traditional Indian ice cream) and the delectable gulab jamun (fried dough balls swimming in rosewater syrup) could all be after-dinner favorites for an Indian gastrodiplomacy campaign.
Paul Rockower: Indian Gastrodiplomacy to Help Feed Perceptions of an Emergent India Paul Rockower 2011
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Indian sweets like the immaculate barfi (condensed milk squares), kulfi (sweet, creamy traditional Indian ice cream) and the delectable gulab jamun (fried dough balls swimming in rosewater syrup) could all be after-dinner favorites for an Indian gastrodiplomacy campaign.
Paul Rockower: Indian Gastrodiplomacy to Help Feed Perceptions of an Emergent India Paul Rockower 2011
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The coconut-mousse bombe: Silly name aside, it is, in fact, the bomb -- a cloud-like concoction of coconut essence around a sphere of semi-sweet chocolate, plated atop wafer-thin pineapple slices, nuzzled against a grown up version of gulab jamun -- a doughnut-like pillow of a cake, sans the sweet sauce.
Sheila Marikar: Tamarind Tribeca: The Indian Foodie's Mecca 2010
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And especially if you've never had them before, especially if you don't think you can stuff another morsel of food down your gullet, get the gulab jamun.
Sheila Marikar: Tamarind Tribeca: The Indian Foodie's Mecca 2010
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Both are fantastic: the two gulab jamun simultaneously syrupy, warm and delicately doughy, as if an Indian auntie tended to them for hours, sweating over the stove.
Sheila Marikar: Tamarind Tribeca: The Indian Foodie's Mecca 2010
madmouth commented on the word gulab
Hindi: "rose". from it is derived gulabi, meaning "pink". it's the same in SBC: "rose" is ruža and "pink" is ruži�?asto
I wonder how many other languages have this derivation scheme
October 31, 2009
bilby commented on the word gulab
In Italian rosa can mean:
- rose plant/flower
- pink
- group/squad (of a sports team)
- gnawed (feminine singular past participle of the verb rodere, to gnaw).
October 31, 2009
madmouth commented on the word gulab
intrigué!
October 31, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word gulab
It has a different pronunciation when it means gnawed: this one (although the sound of this guy's S is a bit strange)
October 31, 2009
bilby commented on the word gulab
Perhaps he belongs to the Lega Gnawed. They're strange.
October 31, 2009