5 Minute Besan Laddoos

Name: 5 Minute Besan Laddoos
Total time: 300 s
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 cup besan (gram flour or chickpea flour); 1/4 cup ghee; 1/2 cup powdered sugar (sold in Bombay during festival times as 'Pithi Saakhar'); 1/2 tsp cardamom powder; 10 halves of cashew nuts fried in a little ghee for decoration

Saffron Trail @cook_2655870

Bangalore

Talking about Laddoos, i have never been too fond of them, except for Moti Choor Laddoo, which I would never dream of making at home. Any part of India and you'll find several varieties of them made with a variety of flours, and methods. As far as I can understand, for any laddoo made from using flour, the flour needs to be roasted till aromatic and during the roasting process, a certain amount of fat like ghee is used to cook the flour while roasting. Some more fat is used to bind the sweetened roasted flour into round shapes and a laddoo is born.

See more on my blog here: http://www.saffrontrail.com/diwali-delicacy-5-minute-besan-laddoos-recipe

Saffron Trail @cook_2655870

Bangalore

See more on my blog here: http://www.saffrontrail.com/diwali-delicacy-5-minute-besan-laddoos-recipe

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Ingredients

5 mins

10 servings

1 cupbesan (gram flour or chickpea flour)
1/4 cupghee
1/2 cuppowdered sugar (sold in Bombay during festival times as 'Pithi Saakhar')
1/2 tspcardamom powder
10 halvesof cashew nuts fried in a little ghee for decoration

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Steps

5 mins

1

In a large microwave safe bowl, mix the besan and ghee. Microwave on HIGH for 5 minutes stirring well every one minute. [increase 2 more min if your machine power is low.
2

Once the flour seems slightly darker in colour and richly aromatic, remove from oven and allow to cool completely. This will take up to half an hour.
3

Once cooled, add 1/2 cup powdered sugar [NOT icing sugar], with cardamom powder into the roasted flour. Knead well to mix and shape into 10 balls pressing a slice of fried cashew on top.
4

These will harden as they cool. Store in airtight container.

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on November 10, 2015 06:01

Bangalore

Blogger at www.saffrontrail.com. Trained as a medical doctor with a specialisation in nutrition, Nandita Iyer is a well published writer and columnist. Her food blog, Saffrontrail, is where she shares her food thoughts and recipes, since 2006. She has also worked with Ogilvy Healthcare (Mumbai) as a strategy planner. Her work has appeared in Men's Health, Mint, BBC Good Food, Femina, DNA, Complete Wellbeing, Mother Baby, Yowoto.com among others. She writes on health, nutrition and food.