BESAN LADDOO

It is my all time favorite sweet, mainly it is good for ritual ceremonies, In India people generally offer this laddoo to god as Prasad mainly in Hanuman jayanti, I made this laddoo for fast, it was delicious, Besan laddoo is very popular in northern India.  remember when you make laddoos, after frying the besan or gram flour, put little bit of ghee or clarified butter to your palm, it prevents sticking of flour in hands.

 Note:-you have to make laddoos when the mixture is warm otherwise you can’t make laddoos.

 Ingredients:-

Gram flour-500 gms

Castor sugar-500 gms

Ghee or clarified butter-250 gms

Cashew nuts-100 gms(broken into pieces)

Method:-

Mix gram flour and ghee over a low heat in a kadhai and constantly keep stirring to avoid lumps

 When it releases an appetizing smell remove it from the heat and allow cooling.

Add sugar and nuts to the gram flour and mix thoroughly.

 Now form ping-pong size balls of the mixture.

Ladoos are ready to be served

SEV AND BOONDI

In 15th August (Independence day) its our family tradition to have sev and boondi in our breakfast,this year too we have

Ingredients-



1) Sev

Gram flour(besan)-1 cup

Baking soda-1/2 tsp

Turmeric powder-1 tsp

Salt- to taste

Oil – for deep frying

Method-

Combine gram flour, baking soda, turmeric  powder, salt and little water - make stiff dough

Switch on the flame, put deep pan over the flame  with oil, now fill the “sev-press” with this dough,

press out strands over hot oil, now fry the strands until  golden color.

you can store this in an air tight  container




2) Boondi-

Ingredients-

Gram flour-1 cup

Ghee-for  frying

Sugar-1 cup

Cardamom powder-1 tsp

Method-  

To make sugar syrup- Mix the sugar and water together in a broad pan and cook till one thread consistency

To make Boondi- Take 1 cup gram flour and ½ cup water , mix together to make batter but take care that lumps should not be there, 

Heat the ghee in a pan,  take a perforated spoon,  pour little amount of batter over perforated spoon so that batter drops from spoon and formed boondi, do this step until all the batter is finished, 

fry boondi ,

dip in hot sugar syrup ,

sprinkle cardamom powder over boondi

 serve hot or cold as you wish but as I say boondi and  sev is a good combination