LADDHU

Happy Diwali to all my friends..Sorry for the late posting..
I made a sweet evening to u all…how we can imagine Diwali without sweets.. I get the laddhu recipe from one of my ex.colleague, she is from Chennai.so I tried the recipe on yesterday night. It came out very well. Absolutely stunning…here is the recipe…just try it out..

Ingredients

Basin/ Kadala mavu – 500 gm.
Rice flour – 2 tbsp.
Sugar – 500 gm.
Ghee – 1 tbsp.
Oil – for frying
Kesari powder – ¼ pinch
Salt – a pinch
Cashew nuts – 50 gm. (roasted)
Raisins - -25 gm.  Roasted
Cardamom- 10 /15
Cubed Sugar /Kalkandam – 25 gm.

Method

Take a bowl with basin/ kadalamavu along with salt, ghee and rice flour. Make a thick batter u can add 2/3 tbsp to 1/2 glass of  water. Don’t add more water. Heat a kadai with oil , take a boondi plate( u can bought it from the grocery shop)spread the batter in the plate and drop in to the kadai.nw u can see the boondies floating in the oil. Stir it very slowly until the boondies are cooked. Then drain from the oil. Keep it aside.

Now the time for making  the sugar syrup. Its not a big deal friends. Take a pan with 1 cup of water, when water is became hot add the sugar and make a thick syrup. Add the kesari powder and boondies in to the syrup. Soak the boondies in the syrup for 5 minutes. Then add the roasted cashewnuts and raisins. Mix all the ingredients well. Finally add the cardamom and cubed sugar. Allow the mixture in to a room temperature.

Make a even balls and allow to cool. Now the tasty and delicious south Indian laddhu is ready to serve..

(B.plate crtsy-priya)