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Rasgulla or gulab jamun - the lighter mithai?

Rasgulla or gulab jamun - the lighter mithai?

Two rasgullas give you about 212 kcal, while two gulab jamuns hit about 350 kcal. The boiled chhena sweet wins because gulab jamun stacks fried khoya and ghee on top of the same sugar syrup.

12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
rasgulla gulab-jamun mithai sweets

Both are syrup-soaked Bengali-style mithai you grab at a festival. They look like cousins, but they are built very differently. Rasgulla is soft chhena boiled in sugar syrup. Gulab jamun is dense khoya, deep-fried in ghee, then drowned in syrup. Same syrup, very different body. That one step, fry vs boil, changes the calories a lot.

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