BOONDI LADOO / MOTICHUR LADDU

BOONDI LADOO / MOTICHUR LADDU

Boondi Ladoo usually made for Vinayaka chaturthi/Diwali ... Chotta Bheem love ladoos :-) 
This ladoo is made out of Besan powder and sugar syrup. The ideal way to do boondi is using JARINI (jarini is ladle type specially made for boondi making) dont worry ... You can also make boondi with our usual ladle used for deep frying (having tiny holes). 

Ingredients

BESAN FLOUR	1 cup
SUGAR	1 AND 1/2 CUP
WATER(TO MAKE SUGAR SYRUP)	3/4th Cup
CARDAMOM POWDER	A PINCH
GHEE	1 Table spoon
COOKING SODA(BI CARBONATE OF SODA)	A pinch (mutard size)
OIL	As needed for deep frying
CASHEW NUTS	5 nos
Raisins -	1/2 Table spoon
CLOVES	2 nos
Edible camphor  (Optional)	a very tiny pinch
Food colour (Optional )	A pinch

1st bhoondi batter need to be prepared 

• Take a bowl, Add besan flour 
• Add the cooking soda
• Mix the besan with water like dosa batter consistency without any lumps.
• Keep this mixure aside

• Take a pan and Fry the cashew nuts, raisins, and cloves in a tsp of ghee and keep it aside.
• For sugar syrup making : mix the sugar with the given amount of water  in a heavy bottomed vessel.
• keep stirring slowly ..sugar will eventually get dissolved in the heat
• Now stop stirring and boil the sugar till this reach one string consistency.
• One String consistency : take a little sugar syrup between your thumb and point finger and now extend the point finger slowly from the thumb. if you see one string forming ..then your syrup is perfect.
• Now take a pan to deep fry boondi.
• To check whether the boondi mixture is right in consistency , 
• Take a spoon and with the back of the spoon mix the batter well and just hold it on the top of the hot oil.
• If this forms a nice round ball then the consistency if perfect, else it gives a tail you need to add little extra water. Add 1 tblsp and check again.
• If this forms a very thin roundels then the water is more, just add one tblsp of besan to this and check again.
• Now the batter is PERFECT for boondis.

• Pour a ladle of batter to the boondi ladle
• When it is half fried take it out from the oil and trasfer it to the sugar syrup
• Keep deep frying untill you finish the required bhoondi
• Now add fried cahew nuts, raisins and cloves and add elachi powder to the boondi sugar mixture.
• Mix this well and now the bhoondi ladoo mixure is ready 
• When the mixture is luke warm make ladoo balls of desired sizes and enjoy tasty ladooooooos.