Friday, October 23, 2009

Bhoondhi Laddoo - A Diwali Treat


Made these yummy ladoos for Diwali from my mother's recipe. Though there are different forms of ladoos, bhoondhi ladoo has been my favorite, especially I love the ones from Adyar Ananda Bhavan... I didnt have any special laddle for making them, so used the regular slotted laddle (Jalli karandi) a slightly bigger one. The initial rounds of bhoondhi came out just fine but the final three batches got messed up, as they began to clog together. Probably the heat got reduced or the batter became too thin/thick , I am not sure, but who cares I got enough bhoondhi's to make 25 ladoos. I added chopped almonds and raisins instead of the traditional cashews, not that I dont prefer them , I realised that I ran out of cashews at the last minute, but the almonds tasted equally good and balanced out the sweetness of the ladoo.

The recipe is very simple and it hardly took 1 hour for me to finish . Hope you all give it a try.
Ingredients:
2 cups gram flour
a pinch of salt
a pinch of cooking soda
for the syrup :
3 cups of sugar (for each cup of flour 11/2 cup of sugar)
1 cup of water ( for each cup of flour 1/2 cup of water)
few cardomom pods
1 drop of yellow food colour (optional)
1 cup chopped almonds/cashews
1/2 cup raisins
Method:
- Take few tsp of ghee and fry the almonds and raisins as we do for payasams. Keep aside.
- Take enough oil in a wide bottommed vessel(atleast an inch thick)
- Mix the flour soda and salt with enough water , just enough to resemble Idli batter.(The batter should not be either too thick or too thin).
- Once the oil is hot(keeping the slotted laddle over the oil) , spread a laddle full of batter over the slotted laddle in circular motion. The bhoondhi's will fall in the oil.
- Fry them for 2 mins , take them out and drain in a paper towel.The bhoondhi should not become crisp.
- Repeat the same with the remaining batter.
- Switch on the other stove and heat the sugar and water in parallel. Add the smashed cardomom pods to it.
- Allow it to boil and reach the single string consistency i.e., if you touch and release the liquid between your fingers it should form a string.
- At this point switch of the stove and mix the bhoondhi, and fried almonds and raisins.Give it a stir with a wooden spoon, close with a lid and allow to cool for few minutes.
- While its still warm , make it to lemon sized balls.

Note : If the mixture gets cooled after sometime heat for a minute in a a Microwave.
If you do not have a microwave, Sprinkle some warm milk as you make the balls
This recipe makes 25 - 30 medium sized ladoos.

Sending these yummy laddoos to the following events:
Diwali Dhamaka event at Purva's blog
FIL - Ghee Hosted at Sanghi' Food Delights

11 comments:

Unknown said...

The first laddoo is bagged by us...lol..gorgeous laddoo, liked the addition of almond chunks..

Anu Nandu said...

Hi Sumi,

Ladoos look perfect! I made these for Diwali too - they are easy to make when you get the hang of it - its very intimidating when you haven't tried it once - yours looks perfect!

You have a nice blog - keep up the good work!

San!!! said...

Nice click and colorful laddoos .

Anonymous said...

Laddoos looks nice and yummy. I guess they also look a little dry? I use a little warm milk to reduce the dryness.
Keep rocking and have a great Diwali.

Shobha

Bindiya said...

Hey this looks really yummy!

Sanghi said...

Wow.. delicious ladoo sumi.. thanks for visiting my place.. I'm following you!

Myvegfare said...

lovely laddoo, they look gorgeous, My hubby loves laddoos I must show this to him!!, may be u can parcel me some,

Unknown said...

love boondi in any form! thanks for sending these laddoos for my event Sumi:)

Indu said...

This is just awesome.feel like eating a few from the pic.

Champa said...

Thanks for visiting my blog. I make boondi laddus too. By reading the description, (I could be wrong), it might've started clinging because of the bottom of the karandi. What you need to do is wipe it clean every time you use it to drop the batter. As I said, I could be wrong, but that's what happens to me when I don't clean the bottom between batches.

Malar Gandhi said...

Wow, boondhi laddooo looks yumm, dear:)

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