Boondi Laddoo

Wishing you all a very Happy new Year n Happy Bhogi/Makar sankranthi too !!
This post is dedicated to my mother.

Each one of us feel, no matter what, the best of the best foods in the world tastes second to our own mom’s recipes. I have fond memories of my mom cooking awesome recipies while i was growing up. She made sure there was always an abundance of home made snacks for us to munch through out the day. One of her signature recipes and my all-time favourite sweet is Boondi Laddoo. She used to prepare it frequently and with such mastery that it tastes awesome. I am amazed at how she managed job, home, relatives, cooking delicious recipes and many more with such ease. She has been a great inspiration for me in so many ways and age took a toll on her now and restricted her mobility. After I became a mom, my guilt of not helping my mom with kitchen chores during my childhood increased a lot. I am trying to make it up a little bit by recreating some of her recipes through my blog. Here I attempted Boondi Laddoo for the first time with instructions from my mom. It took about two hours and turned out very well. Here I present Boondi Laddoo to relish this Sankranti season. Njoy Cooking, Serving n Savoring!

Ingredients:

Besan flour: 2 cups

Water: As required to make batter

Sugar: 2 1/2 cups

Salt: Two pinches

Baking soda: A pinch(Optional)

Cardamom pods n clove: Few

Edible camphor: A pinch

Rock sugar, dry fruits: One fistful (I’ve used cashews, badam n raisins )

Oil: As required for deep frying

Method of preparation:

🌾. Take besan flour into a vessel and add required amount of water to get batter(Approximately 3/4th cup). Also add salt and baking powder too.

🌾. Heat kadai and pour oil for deep frying. Meanwhile prepare sugar syrup. Make cardamom pods and cloves into powder and add to the sugar syrup . Sugar syrup should be one string/thread consistency. But mom used to keep for two more minutes after reaching one sthread consistdncy. That makes this laddoo unique texture and taste.

🌾. Fry boondis using a perforated ladle normally used to prepare laddoos. Take two ladles of batter and keep the ladle above oil and tap the ladle with another ladle so that droplets of began batter fall into the hot oil. Fry them keeping on high flame and pour the fried boondis into the hot sugar syrup. Likewise fry all the boondi in batches.

🌾. Also fry crushed almonds, cashews and raisins in little ghee and add to the mixture. Add rock sugar at the last otherwise they easily melt.

🌾. Mix the entire mixture thoroughly and make into round shaped laddoos. Making laddoos are little difficult bcoz of our unique sugar syrup consistency. So while making laddoos we dip our palm in warm water once in a while. Yummy n unique laddies are ready ❤️🌹😋!!!