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motichoor laddu
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easy motichoor laddu recipe

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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings: 18 laddu
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients Method

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

Method
 

soaking and grinding the bengal gram:
  1. Take 1 cup of bengal gram in a bowl, soak it for 2 hours
  2. After 2 hours, drain the water completely.
  3. Transfer it to a blender jar and blend it coarsely without adding any water and keep aside
frying and grinding:
  1. Heat the oil in a pan for deep frying
  2. just drop the ground bengal gram as vadas
  3. just fry it for 2 minutes (no need to be golden brown)
  4. After frying all the vadas, just put in the blender to blend it coarsely
Making suagr syrup:
  1. 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
  2. In the same pan, pour in 1 cup of water, add 1 cup of sugar
  3. add saffron strands, keep stirring
  4. Heat it in medium flame till it reaches to 1/2 string consistency
  5. Now add the ground fried bengal gram, 1/2 tsp cardamom powder, fried cashews, and raisins
  6. Mix well, when it becomes medium hot, you can start make the laddu