Ingredients (To make 40-45 ladoos)
3 cups gram flour/besan
3 cups sugar
21/4 cups water for making sugar syrup + water enough to make the batter
3 tsp ghee/clarified butter
10 cardamom, powdered
2 tbsp cashew nuts
2 tbsp raisins
1. Take gram flour in a mixing bowl. Add water little by little to this and mix well without forming lumps. Make a batter with the consistency as that of dosa batter.
2. To fry the boondis, heat oil in a bottom thick pan.
3. To check if the consitency of the batter is perfect, mix the batter with the handle of a small spoon and hold it on top of the hot oil. If the batter forms a round ball in the oil, the batter is of the right consistency. If it forms a long drop, that means water is less. Add 1 tbsp of water to this batter and mix well and test the consistency again. If it forms a thin ball, add 1 tbsp of gram flour to the batter and mix well.
4. Pour a ladle of batter to the perforated ladle and keep it on top of the hot oil. Let the boondis fall in the oil. Once the boondis are half fried, take them out and keep aside. Repeat the same for the remaining batter. For each batch of batter, wash and wipe the perforated ladle before using to get perfect boondis.
5. Heat ghee in a pan and fry the cashewnuts, cardamom powder and rasins. Keep aside. Save the ghee also.
6. To make sugar syrup, take sugar and 21/4 cups of water in a heavy bottom pan. Heat it and let the sugar completely dissolve it water. Stir occasionally till in completely dissolves.
7. Now let the sugar syrup boil till it reaches one string consistency. Do not stir at this stage. Turn off the heat.
8. Add the fried boondis to this sugar syrup and mix well.
9. Now add the fried cashew nuts, raisins, cardamom powder and the ghee to this boondi-sugar mix . Mix well.
10. When this mix is lukewarm, using your hands make balls of desired size and store it in an air tight container.
Thanks to Soumya for these yummy ladoos :)
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