- firstly, in a large bowl take 2 cup besan and 2 tbsp rava. if using coarse besan avoid adding rava. Also, add ¼ tsp saffron food colour. Alternatively, use orange food colour (combination of red and yellow food colour gives an orange colour. Now add 1 cup water and prepare a thick lump-free batter.
- Prepare a smooth flowing consistency batter. With the help of ladle, pour prepared besan batter. Slowly tap, making sure the drops of besan fall into the hot oil.
- Once they are almost crisp, take off and drain over the kitchen paper towel.
- In a large thick bottomed kadai, take 1 cup of sugar and ½ tsp saffron food colour. Add ½ cup of water and dissolve sugar.
- Allow it to boil for 4 minutes or until syrup thickens slightly. do not allow sugar syrup to attain string consistency.
- further, add ¼ tsp cardamom powder and ½ tsp lemon juice to sugar syrup. lemon juice prevents sugar syrup from crystallizing.
- firstly, to the hot sugar syrup, add prepared boondi. Mix well and make sure to coat all the boondi with sugar syrup.
- Continue to cook for 2 -3 minutes or until sugar syrup thickens. cover and keep aside for 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes, sugar syrup is absorbed completely by boondi. Add 2 tbsp cashew and 2 tbsp pistachios. mix well.
- You can see the the mixture is dried and all the sugar syrup has absorbed. Prepare the ladoo taking a small amount of boondi. add milk if required, to make moist laddu.
- Finally, motichoor laddo is ready to be served
A popular and attractive round shaped ladoo recipe made with fine and saffron coloured boondi pearls. It is a well known sweet recipe and is mainly prepared for festivals and occasions to share with family and friends. It is generally made with boondi jhaara, but in this post uses easily available spoons in every kitchen.
Motichoor Ladoo
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By Archana P S
Apr, 15th
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Servings
8 persons
Cook Time
35 minutes
Ingredients
10
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Ingredients
- 2 cup besan / gram flour
- 2 tbsp rava / semolina / suji (fine)
- ¼ tsp saffron food colour
- 1½ cup water
- oil for frying
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ tsp saffron food colour
- ½ cup water
- ¼ tsp cardamom powder
- ½ tsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp cashew / kaju (chopped)
- 2 tbsp pistachios (chopped)
Instructions
Notes/Tips
Add a generous amount of food colour to get a rich colour to ladoo.
