Mohan Laadoo Recipe | Mohan Ladoo Recipe

Name: Mohan Ladoo Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 75 min
Ingredients: 2 Cups Semolina (Sooji / Rava) (1 Cup - 250ml); 2 Cups Sugar; ¾ Cup Ghee (Use as needed); 4 Cardamom; 10 Cashews; 1 Pinch Salt

Posted on Nov 1st, 2020

by Sowmya Venkatachalam

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3.86 from 7 votes

Mohan Laadoo, a traditional sweet made for Diwali and many occasions. Sooji based dough is rolled into small puri,deep fried and grind into powder which are then rolled into ladoo with help of ghee. A lip-smacking ladoo variety which is so handy to share with friends and family!

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes

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Mohan Laadoo is a traditional South Indian recipe done especially for Diwali. It is extraordinary in its taste and tantalise our taste buds to have more… The process of making Mohan Laadoo is time consuming. I guess because of the elaborate process, many of us are not doing in nowadays. This is one of the forgotten recipe. Simple yet delicious ladoo using Semolina, a great treat for this Diwali. Lets target for this Diwali and surprise our friends and relatives by sharing this yummy Mohan Laadoo.

Tips for making Mohan Laadoo:

We have to use the sooji we use for making upma. We can use Fine or coarse variety of sooji for this recipe.
Knead the sooji to make a stiff dough.
Poke holes using a fork on each and every rolled poori. This will ensure the poori not puffing up while frying in oil.
I have used 3/4 cup of ghee. Adjust the ghee as needed.
Make sure the ghee is warm that will help to shape the sooji mixture into ladoos.

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Instructions with Step by Step Pictures:

Take the rawa(Semolina) in a bowl along with a pinch of salt and mix well

Add water little by little and make a thick dough like we do it for chapati. Leave the dough covered in a damp cloth or we can close the bowl using a plate and leave it for 10 minutes

After 10 minutes, again press and kead the dough once and make small balls of out of the dough like we do it for poori

Using the roller, make small poori out of a ball as shown in the picture below. The poori should be thin.

Repeat the above steps for the rest of the dough balls. Meanwhile heat a kadai or a heavy bottomed pan and add oil. Test the hotness of the oil and if it is enough to fry the pooris then slowly drop the poori one by one and fry it in a medium heat. The poori should not be fluffy rather it should be crispy. So when the poori starts to fluff in the hot oil, press it with a spatula and make it flat.

Repeat the above steps for the rest of the pooris and allow it to cool off. Break the pooris and take this in a mixer

Grind it to a nice powder to the maximum extent. Though we grind it nicely, sometimes it will be coarse because of the nature of semolina. But try it to the maximum to get a soft and nice powder. Take this ground semolina powder in a bowl

Take the sugar and cardamom in a mixer and grind it to a nice powder.

Once the sugar is ground to powder, add the powdered semolina and grind it to once to mix well with the sugar. Take the semolina-sugar powder in a big bowl or a heavy bottomed pan. In a kadai, heat the ghee and add broken cashew and fry it till it turns golden brown color