easy motichoor laddu recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup split bengal gram (kadalai paruppu)
- 1 tbsp ghee
- 1 tbsp cashew
- 1 tbsp raisin
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup water
- ½ tsp cardamom powder
- a pinch saffron strands
Instructions
soaking and grinding the bengal gram:
- Take 1 cup of bengal gram in a bowl, soak it for 2 hours
- After 2 hours, drain the water completely.
- Transfer it to a blender jar and blend it coarsely without adding any water and keep aside
frying and grinding:
- Heat the oil in a pan for deep frying
- just drop the ground bengal gram as vadas
- just fry it for 2 minutes (no need to be golden brown)
- After frying all the vadas, just put in the blender to blend it coarsely
Making suagr syrup:
- In a pan, heat 1 tbsp of ghee, first add 1 tbsp of cashews fry it when it was half done, now add-in raisins, fry it to become fluffy, and then take off
- In the same pan, pour in 1 cup of water, add 1 cup of sugar
- add saffron strands, keep stirring
- Heat it in medium flame till it reaches to 1/2 string consistency
- Now add the ground fried bengal gram, 1/2 tsp cardamom powder, fried cashews, and raisins
- Mix well, when it becomes medium hot, you can start make the laddu