Besan Ke Laddu /kadala maavu orandai / farina de pois chiche boule

I Like these laddus for their crunchiness. Hope u would enjoy them too...on ur big and small occasions.

Ingredients:

1. 200 gms Besan/ Gramflour/ chichpeak flour .
2. 2 cups of sugar .
3. 100 gms of ghee/nayyi/clarified butter.
4. 50 gms of oil.
5. 2-3 pods of ilaichi/elakai/cardamom.
6. 10 - 15 kaju/ mundri /cashews halves.
7. 10-15 dried grapes/ draksh.

Method:

1. Take the seed out from the cardamom pods and grind them to powder using pestle. Keep aside.
2. Take a wok or pan, heat it on a low-medium heat.
3. Add ghee and oil mixture to pan/wok.
4. When u can smell the ghee, add cashew halves to it.
5. now keep stirring and observe the color of the cashews.
6. Add besan when the cashews turn light golden brown.
7. mix besan, dried grapes, ghee+oil and cashew mixture well.
8. cook this mixure till the besan changes its color and u see the ghee separating from the besan slightly.
9. Take the pan/wok off the flame and allow it to cool till the mixture cools down(warm to touch).
10. now add the cardamom powder and sugar to the mixture .
11. mix everything well so that cardamom and other things are uniformly distributed.
12. Take some amount of this mixture in ur palm and form balls.
13. place them in a small plate and allow it to cool completely.
14. store in a dry and air tight container.
15. Enjoy!!!!!!!

My Recommendations:

1. Keep a close watch on the besan while cooking.
2. Keep stirring to avoid burning besan.
3. Buy a coarse variety of besan for these laddus (I have tried these laddus with both smooth and coarse besan ..I like coarse besan better ...as it gives more depth to laddus)