Boondi laddu | Boondi ladoo-How to make-Step by step photos & Video

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

Ingredients

• Gram flour [Kadalai maavu, besan] – 2 cups
• Sugar – 2 cups
• Water – 1 cup
• Ghee – 4 tbsp
• Cloves – 4
• Green cardamom powder – ½ tbsp
• Cashews – 5
• Raisins – 8
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Salt a pinch
• Water as needed
• Oil or ghee for deep frying

Preparation

• Heat ghee in a pan roast cashew nuts & raisins then chop & keep it aside.
• Sieve gram flour.
• Now take the gram flour in a bowl, add pinch of salt, turmeric powder mix well
• Then add water to make it flowing consistency (Not too much watery)
• Heat enough oil in a pan 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 or one string consistency [arai kambi padham / ilam kambi padam] then cut off heat.
• Once its ready add two tbsp of ghee to avoid crystallization.
• Add green cardamom powder.
• Add fried boondi, raisins, cashew nuts, & clovesin 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 Ladoos in warm stage
• Then let it cool & store it in an airtight container use within 5 days

Tip

• You can add nutmeg scraps and kalkandu for another variation

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Boondi ladoo ingredients

Heat ghee in a pan add raisins, cashews roast

In a bowl add gram flour, salt

Add turmeric powder, mix well

Add water slowly make thick batter without lumps

Then add water make boondi batter [Flowing consistency]

For sugar syrup add 1 cup sugar in a pan

Add half cup water & let it boil till half string consistency

Sugar syrup is ready.

One string consistency, cut off heat

Add cardamom powde & ghee [to avoid crystallization]

Heat oil, take batter in a spoon, check consistency

Hold boondi ladle over the pan, pour batter gently shake

Deep fry [Dont fry for long time]

Once its reaady, remove from oil, place boondis in a bowl, cover lid, repeat this procedure for all boondis

Add sugar syrup mix well, leave it for 5 min

Add ghee for shiny texture of laddoo

Add cloves & ghee roasted, chopped nuts, raisins

Take handful of boondis, make lemon size ladoos in warm stage

Shape ladoo

Boondi laddu is ready, let it cool & store it in an airtight container use with in 5 days

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