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Boondi Ladoo Recipe | Boondi Laddu

Boondi Ladoo is a popular traditional Indian sweet made using gram flour, sugar and ghee. The ladoos are made with very small sized boondi that has been soaked in sugar syrup. This sugar infused boondi are formed into Ladoo (balls). One of the tasty and easy to make traditional sweet for any festival or important events
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time45 minutes
Total Time50 minutes
Course: Sweet
Cuisine: Indian, South Indian, Tamil Nadu
Servings: 25 Ladoos
Calories: 320kcal
Author: Sowmya Venkatachalam

Equipment

  • Bhoondi Ladle
  • Heavy Bottomed Pan

Ingredients

  • 2 cups Gram Flour (Besan / Chickpea Flour)
  • 3 cups Sugar
  • 1 tablespoon Rice Flour
  • ¼ teaspoon Baking Soda (Cooking Soda)
  • ½ teaspoon Kesar (Saffron) Colour (Yellow color powder)
  • 1 teaspoon Cardamom Powder
  • 2 teaspoon Cashews
  • 10 nos Cloves
  • Cooking Oil (or Ghee) for frying
  • 1 teaspoon Ghee
  • 1½ cups Water
  • 1 pinch Salt

Instructions

Method to prepare Sugar Syrup

  • Heat a pan with 1 ½ cup of water. Add sugar to the pan and keep in medium-high flame and stir continuously.
  • When the sugar dissolves completely, stir the syrup in low flame till it forms a soft ball consistency. You can test the syrup consistency by adding a teaspoon of syrup to a bowl of water and if you are able to roll like a soft ball, then the consistency is reached.
  • Now add kesari powder, cardamom powder to the syrup and stir well. Switch off the flame

Method for making Boondi

  • Mix the gram flour, rice flour and sieve it in a strainer to avoid lumps. Add salt and cooking soda to the flour. Give a good mix. 
  • Add water little by little and mix the flour well to make a batter. The batter should be little thin in consistency than bajji batter.
  • Heat a pan, add oil/ghee and keep it in medium flame till it is hot. Drop a single drop of gram flour batter into the oil and see if it comes up immediately in the oil. This is the correct heat to prepare bhoondi. Take 1 ladle of gram flour batter and hold the bhoondi ladle above the oil. Pour the gram flour batter and gently tap the boondi ladle so that the flour batter drops evenly in the oil.
  • Fry the boondhi till they are ¾th fried. We don’t need to fry them till they are crispy. 

Mix Boondi and Sugar Syrup

  • Add it to the sugar syrup immediately.  The sugar syrup should be warm when you add the boondhi to the syrup. Do no bring the syrup again to boil. Just warm it up.  Repeat the same for remaining gram flour batter and add the boondhi to the sugar syrup. In another pan, heat ghee and roast the broken cashews, raisins and cloves till the cashews turn lightly golden brown.
  • Add these roasted nuts to the boondhi syrup and give it a good mix. Mix the bhoondi well in sugar syrup and let it be in sugar syrup for 10 mins so that the bhoondi’s are soaked well in the sugar syrup. Take the bhoondi in a plate and allow it to become little warm so that we can take it in hand and press it to make small balls of laddu.
  • Once the bhoondi becomes little warm, take 1 handfull of bhoondi and press it well to make it to medium sized laddu’s. Repeat the same for remaining bhoondi
  • The delicious laddu is ready to serve.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1pieces | Calories: 320kcal | Carbohydrates: 26.6g | Protein: 1.2g | Fat: 14g | Cholesterol: 5mg | Sodium: 15mg | Sugar: 26.6g