Beetroot boondi laddu | Beet ladoo-How to make-Step by step photos(Without artificial color)

Cuisine Style: India | Preparation & CookingTime: 15 to 20 minutes | To Serve: 5 | Type: Sweet, Festival, Diwali Sweet, Ganesh chaturthi

Ingredients

• Gram flour [Kadalai maavu, besan] – 1 cup
• Sugar – 1 cup
• Water – ½ cup
• Ghee – 4 tbsp
• Cloves – 2
• Green cardamom – 3 or cardamom powder – ½ tbsp
• Almonds - 3
• Pistachios - 5
• Cashews – 5
• Raisins – 8
• Salt a pinch
• Beetroot juice & Water as needed
• Oil or ghee for deep frying

Preparation

• Heat ghee in a pan roast cashew nuts, Almonds, Pistachios & raisins then chop & keep it aside.
• Sieve gram flour.
• Now take the gram flour in a bowl, add pinch of salt then add beetroot juice to make it flowing consistency (Not too much watery)
• Once the oil heat up then pour one ladle full of batter over the boondi ladle then gently scratch with the ladle.
• Deep fry both on medium heat.
• Once its ready take it out & drain on absorbent paper.
• Transfer boondis to a bowl & cover with lid.
• Then fry another set of boondis then transfer to a bowl.
• Heat water & sugar (1: ½) in a pan let it boil till half string consistency [arai kambi padham] then cut off heat.
• Add two tbsp of ghee.
• Add fried boondi, raisins, cashew nuts, almonds, pistachios,& cloves to the warm sugar syrup & gently mix.
• Leave it for a min then again gently mix (So that the boondhi absorb the sugar syrup completely)
• Then take one handful of mixture and make a ball shaped Laddoos
• Then let it cool & store it in an airtight container use within 5 days

How To Make Beetroot Boondi laddu or Boondi ladoo - Step by Step Photos

Grate beetroot

Add grated beetroot in a mixer jar

dd water then finely grind

Drain beetroot juice

Squeeze extract beetroot juice

Add beet juice mix well

Beetroot boondi batter[Flowing batter] is ready

For sugar syrup add 1 cup sugar

Add water cardamom pods or cardamom powder, cook till on string consistency

Sugar syrup is ready cut off heat

Ghee roast nuts & raisins then chop

Heat oil hold bbondi ladle over the pan, pour beet gram flour batter shake & deep fry

Deep fry beet boondis on medium flame

Add fried boondis into sugar syrup mix well, cover it, leave it for 2 min

Add nuts & clove

Add raisins

Mix well

Beetroot boondis absorbed all the sugar syrup

Make equal size tight lemon size laddus

Beet laddu is ready, let it cool stor in an air tight container

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