Boondi Laddu

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Besan
• 1 tsp Rice Flour or a pinch of baking soda( cooking soda )
• Salt 1 pinch
• 2 tab sp crushed Cashews
• 1 tab sp Raisins
• 10 -15 Cloves
• Orange colour
• 4 tbsp Ghee
• 1/2 sp cardamom powder
• Oil/ghee for frying
• For making Sugar Syrup
• Sugar - 1 3/4 cup
• Water - 3/4 cup

Method:

• Mix besan, rice flour, pinch of orange colour and salt with water.
• (the consistency should be like dosa mix so that it should be easy to make boondi)
• Heat oil in a frying pan. In the mean time in a pan heat 3/4 cup of water.
• Bring it to boil. Then add sugar.
• Put it in medium heat to make the sugar syrup.
• (Care should be taken that the sugar syrup is not over done. Using a spoon take few drops of sugar syrup, when you pour it from the spoon the last drop of the syrup should form a thin continuous line.
• If it doesnt keep it for boiling for another 2 minutes.)
• Heat oil in a pan.
• Take Boondi laddle and hold the handle on your left hand and take a spoon full of dough on your right hand.
• Hold it on the hot oil, now pour the dough on the boondi laddle and rub it very fast through the holes with the bottom of the spoon.
• The disc must be held close to the pan.
• The batter must fed quickly into the oil. Cook boondi till they become fine gold colour.
• Remove and put them in a big vessel and then add the sugar syrup, raisins, fried cashews , cloves and powdered elaichi.
• Mix well . Make it into a ball.
• Your Boondi laddu is ready to taste.