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Boondi Ladoo | Boondhi Ladoo Recipe

Boondhi Ladoo Recipe - a popular Indian sweet also known as boondi ladoo, boondi ke ladoo, bundi ke laddu. This is made with a mix of small tiny balls known as 'boondhi' which is made with gram flour batter. These fried boondi is mixed with sugar syrup flavoured with cardamom, cloves and sprinkled with cashews, raisins. This traditional boondi ke ladoo takes an important part in diwali sweet platter along with a different version of this called as motichoor ladoo.
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Servings: 12 ladoos
Calories: 155kcal

Ingredients

For Making Boondi

  • 1 cup Gram Flour | Besan
  • tsp Baking Soda
  • tsp Yellow Food Colouring
  • ½ cup Water adjust accordingly
  • Oil for Deep Frying

For Sugar Syrup

  • 1 ¼ cup Sugar
  • ½ cup Water
  • 1 tsp Ground Cardamom
  • ¼ tsp Cloves crushed

For Fried Nuts

  • 3 tbsp Cashews broken into small pieces
  • 3 tbsp Raisins
  • 1 tbsp Kalkandu | Sugar Candy
  • 1 tbsp Ghee

Instructions

  • Take gram flour in a sifter and sieve it. Add in water and mix to a smooth batter. Add in water slowly and make it into a smooth batter. Now add in some baking soda and food colouring. Mix well. The batter should be little thick, it should be thinner than bajji batter. Make the batter perfectly then only you will get round boondi.
  • Now heat oil for deep frying. Now take a boondi karandi or a perforated ladle. Hold it over oil. Pour a ladleful of batter over the karandi and spread it out. The boondis will fall drop by drop. Fry the boondi till they are little soft. Drain them and set aside.
  • Take sugar and water in a pan, mix well so it is melted. Bring it to a boil and cook till it attain a single string stage. When you take the spoon from the syrup and see, the last drop falling from the syrup form a single string like consistency. At this point, take it off the heat and add in cardamom powder, clove powder, food colouring and mix well.
  • Now take boondis in a bowl, add in the sugar syrup and use the back of a big ladle to bash the boondis so it gets little mashed up.
  • Now heat ghee in a small pan, add in cashews and fry till it is light golden, add in raisins and fry till golden, add in cloves and mix well.
  • Pour this over the boondi and add in sugar candy. Mix well. Take a small portion of this mix and shape it into a tight ladoo. Do this for all the mixture. Let this set for 2 to 3 hours untill it gets firm. Then Serve.

Notes

  • Make sure the batter is smooth and lump free. This makes the batter pass through the ladle easily.
  • Fry the boondi till it is little soft. Don't cook till it is super crispy.
  • Make sure you get the sugar syrup to the correct consistency which makes the ladoo firm once cooled.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 155kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 3mg | Sodium: 20mg | Potassium: 135mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 22g | Vitamin A: 4IU | Vitamin C: 0.3mg | Calcium: 8mg | Iron: 1mg
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