Boondi ka laddu

• Servings:
• Preparation time: 10-12 minutes.
• Cooking  & taping time: 5-6 minutes(each batch).
• bind laddu time: 1 minute (each)
• Total time: 20 minutes.

In India gifting your friends and family during festival is very popular. This festive season gift your near and dear ones a basket full of homemade delight ’Boondi ka laddu’, that comes laden with pure ghee (clarified butter) cashew nut and Raisins.

‘Happy holi’

Ingredients:

For boondi batter:

• Besan: 200 gm.
• Food Colour:
• Water: ½ cup
• Ghee (clarified butter): for deep frying

For sugar syrup:

• Sugar:  200 gm.
• Water: ½ cup
• Green Cardamom: 5-6 no.
• Cashew nuts: 10-12 no.
• Raisins: 15-20 no.
• Melon seed: 1 tablespoon

Preparation:

For sugar syrup:

1. Take a large pan; pour sugar as well as water in it, and Let the syrup boil for 3-4 minutes.
2. To test the readiness of sugar syrup, pour a little amount of sugar syrup in a cup ¼ filled with water, if it get dissolved immediately, continue boiling for a minute and put off the flame, if it doesn’t dissolve immediately means it is ready, put off the flame.
3. Add cardamom powder, raisin and cashew nut. Keep aside.

For boondi:

1. Take a wide vessel; Put besan add water in small quantity to make a smooth batter. It should neither be too thin nor thick just like dosa batter, add colour as per your choice. (See photo…)
2. Take a fry pan, Heat ghee on medium heat (to check if oil is ready, pour   batter, if it comes up slowly means it is ready, if doesn’t wait for couple of minutes ant test again).
3. Take a ladle full of batter on boondi ladle/maker and gently tap it. Droplets of batter will fall into the hot ghee and beautiful round shaped boondi will appear. (If boondi is not round in shape and get tail end means, the batter is thin add bit of gram flour and check again) Fry for a minute and take out, put it into sugar syrup. Repeat the process for rest of the batter.
4. Mix them properly let it cool till you will able to bind the boondi mixture in the shape of laddu by help of your fist.
5. Take one handful mix; shape the mixture in laddu by using your hand/fist, depending upon size of laddu 15-20 laddu will be ready.
6. Decorate with Chandi ka verak, delicious laddu is ready to be served.

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