Boondi laddu
Boondi laddu is an indian sweet dessert recipe prepared with besan or chickpea flour. Deep fried chickpea flour pearls are soaked in a sugar syrup and shaped to round balls. This sweet is usually made on festivals like Diwali or Navaratri.
Ingredients
Method
- Sieve the besan without any lumps. Add the baking soda to it.
- Mix the besan with water to make a batter of dosa or pancake batter consistency. Set aside.
- Fry the cashew nuts and cloves in ghee and keep it aside.
- For sugar syrup, take a heavy bottomed vessel, add water and sugar. Stir until one string consistency.
- For making boondi, take another heavy bottomed vessel, add oil and heat it.
- Pour a ladle of batter to the perforated ladle and let the boondis falls into the oil.
- Cook until half fried, take it out from the oil with another ladle and transfer it to the sugar syrup. Repeat the process for the the remaining batter.
- Keep wiping out the excess batter from the top and back of the ladle used for making boondi. This will help with the shape of boondi.
- Add the fried cashew nuts, cloves and cardamom powder to the boondi- sugar mixture.
- When it is lukewarm make small round shaped balls and store them in airtight container.