This is the second time Divu tried Besan ke Laddoos and they came out real nice! The first time, it became something else (rather, she had to make it something else) Will tell you how... :-)
So here's the recipe.
Ingredients
Heat a large pan on a medium flame. Add gram flour and semolina and roast the mixture for a minute. Add ghee and mix it well with the mixture. Keep stirring the mixture continuously over medium flame to prevent the mixture from sticking to the bottom of the pan and getting burnt. Make sure that roast the mixture on medium flame so that it gradually becomes light brown and cooks well. You would need to cook this mixture for around 10-15 minutes.
Remove the mixture from the pan and let it cool. Add crushed almonds and cashew nuts, sugar, and cardamom powder to the mixture and mix everything well. Prepare small-sized balls from the mixture. The laddoos are ready!
If, somehow, you end up putting more Ghee in the mixture and it seems like a paste, which isn't good enough to prepare balls, don't lose heart. Do this (that's what Divu did when she prepared laddoos for the first time):
So here's the recipe.
Ingredients
- Gram Flour (Besan): 4 cups
- Semolina (Sooji): 1/2 cup
- Sugar: 2 cups
- Ghee: 2 cups (melted)
- Almonds and Cashew nuts: 20 pieces (crushed)
- Cardamom (Elaichi) powder: 1 TSP
Heat a large pan on a medium flame. Add gram flour and semolina and roast the mixture for a minute. Add ghee and mix it well with the mixture. Keep stirring the mixture continuously over medium flame to prevent the mixture from sticking to the bottom of the pan and getting burnt. Make sure that roast the mixture on medium flame so that it gradually becomes light brown and cooks well. You would need to cook this mixture for around 10-15 minutes.
Remove the mixture from the pan and let it cool. Add crushed almonds and cashew nuts, sugar, and cardamom powder to the mixture and mix everything well. Prepare small-sized balls from the mixture. The laddoos are ready!
If, somehow, you end up putting more Ghee in the mixture and it seems like a paste, which isn't good enough to prepare balls, don't lose heart. Do this (that's what Divu did when she prepared laddoos for the first time):
- Spread the mixture evenly in a plate and let it cool. You may also refrigerate it for an hour or so to harden the paste.
- When the paste is hard enough, cut diamonds out of it. You now have "Besan ki Barfi" instead of laddoos! :-)
Yummy Div, they r my favs...now i can also ask you to prepare some for me :))
ReplyDelete...Sari
@Sari: anytime Sari, anytime for you :D
ReplyDeleteSo sweet but out of reach. Mouth is watering but looking helplessly.....
ReplyDeleteBut by the way are you a Pakistani or Indian?
okie first things first ......Ive come here before, but comp crashed out before i could leave you guys a comment.........you guys make a really sweet couple..........and Micky you must pat that wife of yours she has extremely good taste look who she married.........LOL... really the two of you lots of happiness and lots of good wishes.........and im sure that whatever is dished out of Mickys dhaba is unquestionably garnished with love! Right Divoo??
ReplyDeleteokie now Divoo and I seem to have one other thing in common besides our impeccable taste in men ofcourse........now that is that both our besan laddoos were disasters the first time around....
I remember trying them when I was eighteen......my parents had gone for a wedding and I had this recipe froma friend whose ladoos were awesome........I mean what could possibly go wrong, right???? lol well what couldnt........anyways the end result was this gooey mass that tasted wonderful but was too liquidy to do anything about........and me being the perfectionist that id like to be i was too ashamed and embarassed to admit that I had failed so what did I do??????????? well first things first got the gooey mess thrown not in the dustbin but in the bin across the road......then tidied the kitchen ofcourse left the dishes..........and then rushed to the neighbourhood shop and bought besan ladoos.......yes when the parents arrived they were greeted by the fragrance of my ladoos mess and the sweet sight of ready made ladoos...............
I never told anyone a word about it...................not until years later I made the ladoos myself and they turned right....this time around mom wasnt around but I told Dad the whole story...........and he found it really funny...............
okie now to the last part of this comment ofcourse im not done yet silly..........but divoo already knows that and youll get used to it..........okie besan ke laddoos well it is the most liked sweet in this house and my husband much to my embarassment swears by mine.........LOL.........okie I think what really makes mine different is the addition of nutmeg.........id like to believe that nutmeg along with eliachi actually takes roasted besan to the next level..............let me know if you agree.............