Laddu

Preparation time:  10 mts                                              SWEETS

Cooking time: 1hr  

 INGREDIENTS:

3 cups sunflower oil.

2 cups gram flour

2 1/4 cup sugar

1  cup water for syrup.

¼ tsp baking soda

1 tbsp raw rice powder

1 tbsp candy

1 tbsp raisins

10 nos Cashew

 3 nos Cloves

 5 nos Cardamom

1 tbsp spoon ghee

½ tsp yellow colour(liquid)

Fry raisins, cashew in ghee and keep aside.

Grind cardamom, cloves and mix with sugar. Make thick syrup by adding 2¼ cup water to this sugar mixture and keep aside.

In another vessel make thick batter by mixing baking soda, colour, gram flour, rice powder and water. Heat the sunflower oil at medium flame. Hold a ‘thavi’ over the boiling oil and pour the batter 3 to 4 tbsp into the ‘thavi’. With a spoon stir the batter so that it starts dropping into the oil. Boodhi’s are formed in the frying pan and once they are cooked collect them with a strainer and store in a vessel lined with tissue paper.

Boil the sugar syrup to form one string consistency. Remove the tissue paper from boondhi vessel. Add boiling sugar syrup, raisins, candy and ghee to the boondhi. Take handful of boondhi mixture and roll them into balls when hot.