BESAN KE LADDU

INGREDIENTS:

Besan (chickpea flour) : 2 cups

Ghee (clarified butter : 2/3 cup

Sugar : 1 ½ cup

Water : ¼ cup

Green cardamom powder : ¼ teaspoon

Method:

Put on a big pan (kadai) on gas and mix ghee and besan in it.

Roast this mixture over slow to medium heat for 20-30 minutes.

Keep it aside. Take another pan and put in the sugar with water and bring it to boil.

Add cardamom powder and boil it on high heat.

When sugar starts to dry, turn off the heat. Stir continuously and vigorously.

You will get a coarse powder of sugar, if there are big chunk of sugar in it, powder it in grinder.

Now add this sugar powder to roasted besan and mix well with hands and shape laddus of your desired size.

Yields: 24-25 laddus of walnut size.