MAA LADOO

MAA LADDU

Ingredients:
1 cup roast gram dal (pottukadalai)
1 cup sugar
50 grms cashew nuts chopped roughly
1 tsp powdered cardamom
2 cups of ghee.
A pinch of salt.

Method:
Powder the dal and the sugar separately.
Pass it through a sieve once.
Roast the cashew nuts in little ghee until golden

Now in a bowl, mix the dal powder, sugar, cashew nuts,
cardamom powder and salt.

Heat the ghee in a pot. Now slowly add the ghee little by little,
till you get the right consistency to make them into balls.

Do not pour all the ghee at once. You might have remainder ghee.
Have some extra dal flour to dust the maa laddu, before storing.

pottukadalai is roasted dal.
If you think the dal looks a bit raw, then dry roast it a bit.
Do not burn them, it will have a ugly colour.

My aunt will roast the besan flour with little ghee, until a nice aroma comes. No raw smell, then she will do the maa laddu with the flour.