Besan ladoo with Tips and Tricks | Magaz Ladoo
Besan Ladoo are creamy, golden-hued, melt-in-your-mouth dessert balls often made during festivals and special occasions.
Ingredients
- 2 Cups ( 250 Gram ) Beasn
- 1 Cup ( 150 Gram ) Sugar
- 3/4 Cup ( 150 Gram ) Ghee
- 2 tbsp Milk
- 2 tbsp Melon seeds
- 1/2 tsp Green Cardamom Powder
- 2 tbsp Almonds
Instructions
- In a big vessel add gram flour. In another vessel add milk and 2 tbsp Ghee mix well.
- Add this ghee mixture to a besan and mix all the ingredients between your palms to make a coarse mixture. You have to do it gently so that all the gram flour is coated with milk and ghee. Keep aside for 5 minutes.
- Into a pan add sugar and 1/3 Cup water.
- Bring the syrup to a boil. Cook for another 3-4 minutes till the syrup starts to lose its translucency.
- As the syrup turns milky, add a tsp of ghee and vigorously stir.
- Take it off the flame, place on a kitchen counter and continue stirring.
- Keep stirring as the sugar solidifies and become tagar. Continuous stirring is essential to obtain a lump free tagar. Store the tagar in an airtight container for months.
- Now dry roast the melon seeds and keep aside .
- Add a 1 tsp of ghee in a pan and roast chopped almonds . keep aside.
- Sieve besan, to remove any kind of lumps.
- In a heavy bottom pan, heat ghee and add the sifted Besan.
- Roast besan at low to medium flame for 20-25 minutes while continuously stirring.
- When the besan turns aromatic and golden brown and starts to leave ghee, switch off the flame.
- Remove the pan of gas stove and keep stirring for another minute before removing it into a plate.
- When the besan mixture reaches a temperature where it is easy to handle with hands, add Tagar , Cardamom powder, Melon seeds and Amonds. Mix well.
- Shape Laddus by taking a handful of mixture and pressing it between fingers and rotating.
- Super Delicious melt in mouth Laduus are ready.