How to Make Laddu

Laddu

Laddu or Laddoo is a ball-shaped sweet popular in Indian Subcontinent as well as regions with immigrants from the Subcontinent such as Hijaz. Laddu is made of flour and sugar with other ingredients that vary by recipe. It is often served at festive or religious occasions.

Ingredients :

• Bengal Gram flour : 500 gms
• Raw Rice flour: 2 tbsp
• Sugar : 625 gms
• Ghee : 1 tsp
• Salt : A pinch
• Cashewnuts: 100 gms
• Raisins : 25 gms
• Cardomoms : 10 No
• Kalkandu(cubed sugar) : 25 gms

To Prepare Boondi : 

• In a wide mouth mixing bowl, mix bengal gram flour, rice flour, a pinch of salt, ghee and with required amt of water, make a thick liquid to the consistency of dosa batter.
• Heat oil in a frying pan, holding the boondi plate (a plate with lot of holes), above the oil spread the batter so that very small pieces are dropped into the oil. 
• Stir the boondi's until fully cooked. 
• Drain the excess oil. 

To prepare Laddu :

• Make sugar syrup by boiling 1:1 sugar and water 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. 
• Also add cardamoms and kalkandu and mix well. Wait until the mixture cools down to a temperature until your hand can with stand the heat. 
• Now make into even balls by pressing lightly with hand. 
• Spread and allow to cool.