Saturday, 3 November 2012

BESAN LADDU (Kugan )

BESAN LADDU

Ingredients:

2 cups of sieved besan flour
2 tbs ghee

1 ½ cups of fine castor sugar
2 tbs of finely chopped cashew nuts, roasted in ghee
A pinch of cardamom powder
¼ cup or little more melted ghee

Method:
Mix the besan flour and the 2 tbs of ghee.
Roast the besan flour over low heat, stir constantly, to avoid lumps.
Roast well till a nice aroma comes from the flour, do not burn the flour.

Now remove the flour to a bowl, let it cool a bit.
Add in the caster sugar, roasted cashew nuts and the cardamom powder.
Now add in the melted ghee, little by little, till you can make the flour into small balls.

Do not add in all the ghee, the flour should not be oily.
Now form the mixture into small balls.
Your ladoos are ready now.

No comments:

Post a Comment