Ladoo Recipe

Ingredients

•  Basen (kadalamavu) – 1 ½  cup
• Baking powder – 2 pinch
•  Turmeric powder-1tbsp
•  Water – ¾ cup
•  Ghee – 3 tbsp
• Cardamom – 10 to 12
•  Raisins – For decoration
•  Oil – for frying
•  Sugar – 1 ½ cup

Method

•  For preparing Laddu, take a wide mouth mixing bowl.
•  Mix well basen flour , turmeric powder and baking powder. Add water
  little at a time and make it into a good paste (like dosha batter)
•  Heat oil in a pan. Pour batter through the perforated spoon ,  spread
  the batter, so that very small pieces are dropped into the oil.
•  Fry till its golden brown in colour in medium heat. Repeat it for the rest
  of the batter.Then we crushed the fried ingredients,
•  Then we crushed the cardamom seeds
•  Fry the raisins in ghee .
•  Make sugar syrup by boiling sugar and water in a pan and mix
  well. Bring it to boil. Continue to boil till you get one string consistency
•  Add crushed basen to the sugar syrup prepared. Then we add
  cardamom powder and mix well
•  Allow it to cool down to a temperature your hands can withstand. Make
  it into even balls and put a raisin on the top.
•   Make into even balls by pressing lightly with hand
•  Spread and allow Kerala Laddu to cool.