Diwali is the time when everyone in the house starts thinking about sweets. Boondi Laddu is one of the special sweets for Diwali. So, let's get right on to prepare laddus. The process is very simple and doesn't take much time.
Ingredients:
Besan or gram flour or chik pea flour - 2 cups
Sugar - 2 cups
powdered cardamom or elaichi - 1 tsp
cashews - 15
raisins - 15
water - 1/4 cup
oil for deep frying
baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Preparation:
Sugar Syrup:
First we have to prepare the sugar syrup. Put the water in the sugar and mix properly. Then keep it on the stove and boil until it reaches one string consistency. (it takes at the max 6-8 minutes if you exactly use the above mesurements. ) Switch off the stove.
Besan Batter:
First sieve the flour and mix water in it without any lumps. The batter should not be too watery or not thick. It should be just like a pancake batter or bajji batter consistency. Add 1/2 tsp baking powder into it and mix well.
Boondi preparation:
Put a frying pan, pour oil into it and heat it. Take a plate or ladle with holes in it. Pour the besan batter into the holes of the ladle. Remove the boondi from the oil while it is still light yellow and put it in the sugar syrup. Do not let the boondi turn crispy. Soak all the boondi in the syrup for 45 minutes to one hr. Put the elaichi powder in the boondi mixture. Put the raisins and cashews. Then start making balls with the soaked boondi by squeezing them hard.
See, it's not that hard. For me it just took one hr to make 20 laddus of medium size with the above measurements. The did turn out really good as you can see from my picture :-)
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