Definition of jalebi in English:
jalebi
nounPlural jalebis dʒəˈleɪbi
An Indian sweet made of a coil of batter fried and steeped in syrup.
Example sentencesExamples
- I found my cousin hiding behind a sweets stall that served the biggest jalebis (Indian sweet pretzels, for lack of a better description) imaginable.
- However, the delicious aroma of the golden, crisp, jalebis wafted up to my nose and tantalized me into buying a quarter kilo.
- For those who like sweets, there are an array of desserts gulab jamuns, gajar halwa, hot crispy jalebis with rabri, malpuras, zaffrani phirni, and kulfi.
- Fill the shell with batter and pour into the hot oil to make jalebis.
- As one entered the lobby of the Sullivan Court, one was greeted with a road-side trolley with hot jalebis topped with zaffrani rabdi.