Serving: 15 pieces| Type: Sweet
Ingredients:
Kadalai Mavu | -1cup |
Rice Flour | -2tbsp |
Baking Soda | -a pinch |
Orange food color | -a pinch |
Salt | -a pinch |
Sugar | -1 ¼ cup |
Cardamom Powder | -1tsp |
Pachai karpooram | -a pinch |
Ghee | -1tsp |
Cashew nuts(broken) | -15 |
Raisins | -20 |
Method:
- Mix the kadalai mavu, rice flour, baking soda, salt and food color with water.
- Like thicker than dosa mauv and thinner than idly mavu.
- Take a vessel add sugar and ¾ cup of water and keep it in the stove on medium flame.
- Boil like more than one string consistency less than two string.
- Then add cardamom powder, pachai karpooram and a little bit food color mix it well.
- Meanwhile take a pan heat with oil.
- Take a spoonful of the batter and pour it on to the boondi karandi. Make sure the boondi karandi is placed right over the hot oil ( Please refer to the picture shown)
- Allow the boondi in the hot oil to float up and stir it once or twice, to make sure it is cooked, but not crispy.
- Then strain out the boondi from the oil and place it in the sugar syrup.
- Before starting the next batch of boondi, allow the oil to heat up again. If not the boondi will not form a round shape.
- Repeat this process, until all the batter is finished.
- Next, heat a pan with ghee and add cashew nuts and raisins, fry until the cashews get golden brown and the raisins get plump.
- Add this to the boondi and sugar syrup mix.
- Then allow the boondi in the sugar syrup to cool to your hands touch.
- After the mixture is cool enough, mash the mixture with your hand.
- Take a hand full of mixture and squeeze it into round balls.
- Allow it to air dry overnight and place the laddus into air tight containers and keep it in the fridge for long shelf life.