Besan Ladu

Besan Ladu in Marathi

Very Popular Maharashtrian Sweet.
Besan Ladoo is traditionally made as a sweet part of Diwali Faral.

Besan Laddu can be prepared without making Sugar syrup. Click here for the recipe of Easy Besan Laddu without Sugar syrup

Ingredients:
1 cup Besan (Chickpea flour)
1/2 cup Pure Ghee
3/4 cup Sugar
1/2 cup water
1 tsp Cardamom Powder
1/4 cup Golden Raisins

Method:
1) Heat a non stick pan. Add Ghee, and let it melt. Reduce the heat to medium. Add besan and fry till golden brown. Wait till you get nice besan and ghee aroma. Remove pan from the heat.
2) In other pan, add water and sugar to make sugar syrup. We need a specific consistency for sugar syrup. For this consistency, boil water and sugar together. Within couple of minutes, once it starts boiling and becomes transparent, immediately turn off the heat. Put this syrup into fried chickpea flour. Mix it well. Remove all the lumps.
3) Stir this mixture in between. Chickpea flour will soak sugar syrup in some time. Mixture will thicken. Then add Cardamom powder. Mix it well.
4) Now make 1 and 1/2 inch tight balls out of this mixture. Place one raisin on top of each ball.

Note:
1) In the above recipe, we have used limited ghee so the mixture could become dry very fast, so keep an eye on consistency of the mixture। If the mixture become dry, it will be difficult to make round balls.