Ingredients:
- Gram flour / Kadala maavu - 3/4 cup
- Rice flour - 1 tbsp
- Cooking soda - 1 pinch
For Syrup :
- Yellow color - 2 pinches
- Sugar - 1.25 cups
- Water - As required
- Cardamom- 4 nos ( powdered )
- Cloves - 3 nos
- Cashews - 10 nos (Broken into two)
Method:
1. Take the flour & cooking soda in a bowl.Add water and make a batter of bajji consistency
( Batter must be smooth & thick )
2. Heat oil in a kadai .Take the batter and pour it in a sieve or ladle with round holes.
3. Tap it gently so that small balls of the batter fall into the oil.Fry in batches and set aside.
(Do not deep fry the balls till crispy . The balls should be soft .So fry for few seconds)
4. Now take the sugar covered with water in a bowl and make the syrup of two string
consistency.
5. Add cardamom powder, yellow color, Fried cloves & cashews.
6. Add the fried balls to the syrup and mix well.
7. Grease the hands with ghee and make balls of desired size when the mixture is still
warm.
NOTE :
• If the mixture cools , balls cannot be made properly.• If the sugar syrup crystallizes before mixing the fried balls, add little water to the syrup
, boil and bring it to the correct consistency.
• Store the ladoos in an air tight container .Its shelf life is 10 days.