Besan Ladoo Recipe is one of easiest and yummiest snack that can be prepared in a jiffy. jaggery can also be added instead of sugar. Adding jaggery improves the nutritional value of the ladoo and is a healthy snack for Travel with Kids.
My 5 year old son doesn’t like jaggery, so I have made this with mishri sugar .
Besan Ladoo Recipe
Ingredients
- Besan flour/ Kadalai Maavu / Chickpea flour – 1 cup
- Powdered Mishri Sugar / Powdered Normal Sugar – 1/2 cup
- Ghee – 3 Tbsp
- Elaichi Powder – 1/2 Teaspoon
For the replacing the sugar with jaggery see notes section below
Method
- Heat a kadai and dry roast the besan flour till it releases the aroma.
- Take care not to brown the flour as it will give a burnt taste to the ladoo.
- Allow the flour to cool and sieve.
- Mix the powdered sugar with elachi powder and add to the cooled flour.
- Melt Ghee in a kadai.
- Add the melted warm ghee to the flour and mix evenly.
- The ghee should be added when warm or else it will be difficult to roll out the ladoos.
- Roll them into even sized ladoos and garnish with preferred nuts.
If using Jaggery instead of sugar
Besan flour – 1 cup
Organic Jaggery – 3/4 cup
Ghee can be skipped or can be added
Heat water and add the jaggery to it, and stir till the jaggery melts. After the jaggery is melted completely, seive to remove impurities.
Then heat the jaggery syrup again to obtain a sticky consistency.Add the flour and cardamom powder to it and mix nicely. Leave them for awhile and roll them into ladoos when mildly hot.
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- Besan flour/ Kadalai Maavu / Chickpea flour - 1 cup
- Powdered Mishri Sugar / Powdered Normal Sugar - ½ cup
- Ghee - 3 Tbsp
- Elaichi Powder - ½ Teaspoon
- For the replacing the sugar with jaggery see notes section below
- Heat a kadai and dry roast the besan flour till it releases the aroma.
- Take care not to brown the flour as it will give a burnt taste to the ladoo.
- Allow the flour to cool and sieve.
- Mix the powdered sugar with elachi powder and add to the cooled flour.
- Melt Ghee in a kadai.
- Add the melted warm ghee to the flour and mix evenly.
- The ghee should be added when warm or else it will be difficult to roll out the ladoos.
- Roll them into even sized ladoos and garnish with preferred nuts.
Besan flour - 1 cup
Jaggery - ¾ cup
Ghee can be skipped or can be added
Heat water and add the jaggery to it, and stir till the jaggery melts. After the jaggery is melted completely, seive to remove impurities.
Then heat the jaggery syrup again to obtain a sticky consistency.Add the flour and cardamom powder to it and mix nicely. Leave them for awhile and roll them into ladoos when mildly hot