Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Boondi Laddoo

Ingredients :

For boondi:

Gram flour - 2 cups ( 250 gms )

Cardamom - 6 to 8

A fine holed utensil

Ghee - 2 tbl spoons

Cashew nuts - 1/4 cup

Dry Grapes - 1/4 cup

Baking Soda - 1/2 tbl spoon

Oil - for frying boondi

For Syrup:

Sugar - 2 to 2 1/2 cups

Water - 1 cup

Procedure :

For syrup:

1.Put sugar and water in a vessel and boil until sugar dissolves.

2.Boil for 5 minutes till bubbles forms on top.

3.Add cardamom powder and mix. Keep aside.

For boondi:

  1. Mix flour,baking powder with water ( as dosa batter ) .
  2. Heat oil in a heavy frying pan.
  3. Hold utensil on top with one hand.
  4. With the other pour some batter all over the holes.
  5. Tap gently till all batter has fallen into hot oil.
  6. Stir with another strainer and remove when light golden.
  7. Keep aside. Repeat for remaining batter.
  8. Now mix boondi in syrup.
  9. Take pan add ghee in that and heat it.Now add cashew nuts, dry grapes and fry them and add that with ghee in that boondi mix.
  10. Cover and keep for 5 minutes.
  11. Now make them as laddoos with your hands.
  12. Cool and keep open to dry, before storing in containers.

1 comment:

  1. You made this? Wow... I'm scared to try it out for the fear that I'll not be able to handle the heat while making them into balls. But it's my favorite sweet to eat. Great work done.

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