Besan Ladoo is one among the most popular Indian sweets for any festival. It is rich, delicious and has a melt in mouth texture with a wonderful nutty aroma of roasted chickpea flour.
Made with fragrant roasted besan or chickpea flour and desi ghee, these laddu are a top favorite among toddlers and kids too.
Ingredients2 cups Chickpea flour besan
1/2 cup ghee add 2 more tablespoons if required
3 tablespoons nuts (almonds, pistachios) chopped
1 1/4 cup sugar powdered
1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder
Method- Heat 2 tablespoons ghee in a pan and fry the crushed nuts well. Remove the fried nuts along with ghee and set aside.
In the same pan add 1/2 cup ghee and heat it. Once it is hot but not smoking, add the gram flour and start roasting.
# Maintain low flame through the entire process. Keep stirring continuously. The flour has to completely absorb the ghee, turn golden with a nutty aroma.
# Once the besan is roasted, add crushed saffron,nuts along with ghee, cardamom powder and mix very well.
# Remove from flame, add powdered sugar and mix well without any lumps. Keep mixing till all the sugar is absorbed and the mixture solidifies a bit.
# At the stage you will find the besan ladoo mixture to be loose. The mixture will solidify on cooling. Once the mixture is warm to handle make ladoos of desired size.
# You can refrigerate the mixture for 10 minutes if the mixture is still loose after cooling for sometime.