Besan Ladoo Recipe | Besan ke Ladoo | Besan Laddu
5 Ingredients recipe to make Besan Ladoo Recipe | Besan ke Ladoo | Besan laddu is one of the most popular Indian sweets. This mithai requires only a handful of ingredients and tastes amazing! These are super addictive too.
Servings 16 Ladoo
Ingredients
- Coarse Gram Flour/Besan 2 cups
- Clarified Butter/Ghee 1.25 cups
- Sooji/semolina 2 tsp
- Burra Sugar 1 cup
- Cardamom powder/Elaichi optional 1/2 tsp
- Chopped pistachios for garnish
Instructions
- In a deep, thick bottom pan/kadai, add ghee.
- Once it's warm, to this add coarse besan/gram flour and semolina/ sooji.
- Keep stirring it continuously without any pauses as besan tends to get burnt very quickly.
- And make sure the flame is on low through out. Initially it will be difficult to stir and mix, but you need to have patience to roast the besan well.
- For me it took almost 20 to 25 minutes to roast the mixture on low flame.
- You need to keep an eye as time may vary according to the quality of besan.
- You will notice that the color has changed to light brown from yellow, and aroma of besan is also an indicator that it's roasted well.
- At this stage sprinkle few drops of water on roasted besan and stir continuously.
- This step will help the particles of besan to rise and fluff up nicely and will stay even after it's cooled down.
- Now, switch off the flame. Keep stirring it or else, mixture may get burnt due to heat of Kadai.
- Shift the roasted besan from kadhai to a plate or just allow it to cool down.
- Once the besan has cooled down a bit but it's still warm, this is the right time to add burra sugar/ powdered sugar into besan.
- Taste the test and adjust the sweetness accordingly.
- Now mix the burra sugar and besan together with hands. Take equal portion and keep rolling tightly in between your palms.
- Roll these golden beauties in to small lemon size balls.
- Garnish with chopped dry fruits.
- Store these ladoos in an air tight container.
Notes
1. Don't mix sugar in hot or very warm mix of besan. It should be very light warm, thats it.
2. You can add cardamom powder to flavor. We like them without cardamom, just the way they are.