Sweets - indian sweets stay unbeatable... the variety and the array simply can blow anyone away. And that too at the time of Festivals... Sweets fall into the 'can't resist' category. And when the Queen of All Festivals is drawing near... The whole air, seems to be laden with the sweet scent of the variety of savouries.
Its Diwali time, and its time to say a good bye to all the diet regimes, fitness centers and simply drive away on the highway of delicacies...
I was soo confused about what I would be preparing for this grand festival. Pictures of Wheat flour Laddoo, Rava Laddoo, Besan Laddoo, Gud Poli, Rasmalai, Malpua, Pedha, Coconut Burfi and many more were hovering my dreams. So finally i got started with Besan Laddoo!!
Recipe:
3 cups of besan (ChickPea Flour)
I started with about 8 spoons of ghee
3 Cups of Sugar powdered
cardamom powder
Raisins fried in Ghee separately
In a wide bottom pan, add ghee and the Besan and start to fry on a low heat. You will need to fry this for about 15 minutes... and you will realise the raw smell of Besan is gone and the heavenly smell of ghee just punches your olfactory cells!!! The color of the besan also would have changed by now.
this is when you add the powdered sugar and start mixing it well, Take it off the heat. Allow it too cool for say 5 minutes. Add cardamom (Don't add cardamom when its very hot-i always feel the fragrance is lost out a bit) let things cool down and then you add the cardamom. Make Laddoos out of the mixture. Just when it is going to get into that perfect form, keep one Raisin over it and continue giving it that round form.
(Ssshhh: I added Badam/Almond Powder along with the besan while frying in ghee-adds a fine taste to it!)
Add a little more of Melted Ghee if you are having trouble binding the laddoos... Indulgence is allowed! :-)
AND...
Strike out that word 'Diet' from your vocabulary for sometime guys!
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