Besan Laddu | Kadala Maavu Laddu
Ingredients
- 500 g Gram flour Kadala podi
- 2 tbsp Raw rice flour Pachha Ari podi
- 625 g Sugar
- 1 tbsp Ghee
- Salt A pinch
- Kesari powder A pinch
- 100 g Cashewnuts
- 25 g Raisins Onakka munthiri
- 10 nos Cardamom Elakka
- 25 g Cubed sugar Kalkandam
Instructions
- For preparing Besan Laddu, take a wide mouth mixing bowl.
- Mix together gram flour or besan, rice flour, a pinch of salt and ghee with required amount of water and make a thick liquid to the consistency of dosa batter.
- Heat oil in a frying pan.
- Holding the boondhi plate (a plate with lot of holes) above the oil, spread the batter, so that very small boondhi pieces are dropped into the oil.
- Stir the boondhis, until fully cooked. Drain off the boondhis to remove the excess oil.
- Make sugar syrup by boiling sugar and water in the ratio 1:1, for about 5 minutes.
- Add a pinch of kesari powder to this syrup.
- Drop the boondis into the sugar syrup and mix well.
- Roast cashewnuts and raisins in ghee and add it to the mix.
- Add cardamoms and cubed sugar and mix well.
- Allow the mixture to cool to a temperature, which your hand can withstand.
- Make into even balls by pressing lightly with hand.
- Spread and allow Kadala Maavu Laddu to cool.
Notes
You can visit this link Besan Dhokla. You can also visit this link Besan Murukku.
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