Boondi Ladoo Recipe

Boondi Ladoo is a great, mouth watering snack-time dessert and is a must have at all special occasions all over India. Boondis are very small, round deep fried balls that have been soaked in fragrant sugar syrup. After soaking, the syrup is drained and the syrup infused boondi are formed into balls (ladoos).

     Ingredients for Boondi Ladoo

·         Gram flour - 1 cup

·         Sugar - 1.5 cup

·         Green cardamom - 6

·         Pistachios -1 tbsp (optional)

·         Melon seeds - 1.5-2 tbsp (optional)

·         Oil - 1 tbsp (for mixing in gram flour mixture)

·         Desi ghee - for frying boondi

Method To Prepare Bundi Ladoo

Firstly strain the gram flour with help of a sieve. Add little water at a time and stir until all lumps gets dissolved. Add some more water and oil. Whisk the batter rigorously until it gets pouring consistency (for making batter from 1 cup gram flour we have used ½ and 1-2 tbsp water). Keep it aside for 10-15 minutes.

Method To Prepare Sugar Syrup

Take sugar in any utensil and add 1 cup water into it. Let the sugar melt completely. After sugar gets dissolved cook for 3-4 more minutes and then check. Take 1-2 drops of syrup in a bowl, make it cool down and check with help of your thumb and forefinger. It should have one thread consistency. If thread is not formed cook syrup for 1-2 more minutes. Sugar syrup for ladoo is ready.

Take oil in a pan and place it on flame for heating. Stir the gram flour mixture for one more time nicely. Place the ladle 6-7 inch above the pan and pour gram flour batter on top of it with help of a spoon. Mixture falls in the pan and boondi gets ready. Fry until boondi turns golden brown in color. Like wise fry all boondi.

Add cardamom, cashew nuts and melon seeds in the sugar syrup. Also add boondi in the syrup and mix all ingredients nicely. Soak the boondi in syrup for ½ hour. Boondi will absorb syrup into it.

Wet your hands with some water and take 2-3 tbsp mixture or accordingly. With help of both hands press the mixture making round ladoos. Like wise make all ladoos. Keep the ladoos open in air for 5-6 hours they will dry up.

Tempting and mouth drooling boondi ladoo are ready.

Useful Tip:

If you prefer eating colored boondi ladoo, then add red, green or whichever you like eating, food color in the boondi and make ladoos.