Besan Ladoo

Diwali is just 1 day away. Diwali is the festival of lights .Making sweets during any festive is so much fun. During childhood it was my mom who used to take a lead with the main cooking for the base of the sweet ;then for rest of the process we ie me and elder sister used to take turns and be a helping hand for things like rolling, cutting into different shapes,may be frying, filling, chopping etc etc (like many of you all stil remember ) and also many times helping neighbors with the same. But now after marriage especially when i am living very far away from my family ,to do everything by your self with no help..literally everything & with no time to make all those list of sweets & salty things ..its no fun :( .

With small kids, work and other reasons, now a days many including me choose not to prepare everything from scratch, the way we used to prepare those days. so have used a store bought Ladoo besan flour.

The 1st one is Ladoo....... yummm who doesn't like it?? from so many ladoos eg Besan ladoo, Methi Ladoo, Boondi Ladoo, Mawa ladoo, Sujirawa ladoo & so on ... here is my favorite besan ladoo. the 2nd recipe will be shared soon.

I remember just for ladoo we had a neighbor granny who used to come home to prepare her speciality "yummylicious Ladoo" you take a bite and it used to melt in the mouth. Those time mom used to get the Dal, clean them, give to the Girni( A place where they grind all the flour in a old school way in big machines) to grind for the right texture & size needed for the ladoo making .

Then this granny i mentioned, she used to dry roast approximately for 1 hr(im not kidding ) ...on low -medium flame. when it used to get very hot she used low the heat and again roast on low flame.

I cheated and managed to do for 30 mins and had an soar arm lol :0 ...but the taste & the golden brown color guarantee will blow your mind.

You can see in the video how i have made them & below are proper ingredients & methods mentioned ...

Ingredients :-

Ladu Besan 2Lb (907 G) ( You can use normal Besan/ Gram Flour)

Powdered Sugar 1 & 1/2 cup ( as per taste)

Almonds roughly chopped 1 Cup

Cashew nuts roughly chopped 1 cup

Cardamom/ Elaichi 10- 15 ( dry roast & grind with 1 tsp of sugar)

Ghee 2 Cups ( at a time added 1/2 cup )

Nutmeg Powder 1/2 Tsp

Method :-

1) Dry roast Cardamom & Grind into fine powder (add 1 Tsp sugar while grinding)

2) Roughly Chop Almonds & Cashew-nuts.

3) Dry Roast Besan for 10-30 mins on low - medium flame, continuously stirring ( I choose to do for 30 mins) .

4) Then add 1/2 cup Ghee (Amul Ghee used), and keep stirring continuously for 5 mins & add 1/2 cup more ghee and stir for 5 mins more & keep doing two more time ( that makes 2 cups of ghee in total )

5) When you see the ghee started to seperate, close the Flame/ Cooking stove and add rest of the ingredients 1) powdered Sugar 2) Elaichi Powder 3) Cashew nuts & Almonds chopped & combine all together well.