Description
Bundi Ladoos are delightful Indian sweets made from deep-fried chickpea flour pearls soaked in aromatic sugar syrup, perfect for festive occasions and prayers.
Ingredients
- Besan (chickpea flour) - 1 cup + 2 tbsp (240 ml + 30 ml)
- Water to make the batter - 2 tbsp (30 ml) approx. ( it should not be too thin or thick, but should have a flowing consistency - pl adjust accordingly)
- Sugar - 1 cup (200 g)
- Water for sugar syrup - 1 cup (240 ml)
- Kesar - few for the sugar syrup
- Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
- Food Colour - Orange and Green
- Oil for deep-frying the Bundis
Instructions
For the Besan Batter
- Take a big bowl and mix besan with water, add little by little the water and ensure no lumps are formed into the besan batter.
- Keep stirring continuously to make a smooth batter.
- Now take 2 separate small bowls and make similar batter from besan with just 1 tbsp besan in each small bowl and add a pinch of orange and green colour to this mixture. (We are doing this step to make coloured bundi’s for the ladoos, which we will add to the main bundis later).
- For the Sugar Syrup -Take a thick bottom pan and add water and sugar to it and heat this on medium to low flame to form one thread consistency sugar syrup. Keep stirring in-between and add in Kesar to this liquid. This process of making sugar syrup will take approximately 15 minutes.
- Now take a kadai and heat the oil in it for frying the bundis.
For Deep Frying the Bundi’s
- Take the besan batter and pour it over a sieve with round holes and tap it gently with a spoon so that small balls of besan fall into the oil.
- Keep the sieve low and not too high above the kadai else perfect balls won’t be formed.
- Keep repeating this process till all your besan is used.
- Same process you need to do for the colour bundis.
- Now pour the bundis into the sugar syrup and mix well.
- Add in the cardamom powder to the fried bundis mixture and stir well.
- Let it cool only for few seconds.
For making the Ladoos
- Wet your palms nicely and start making the ladoos by pressing one or two tbsp bundi in your palms to form a ball. The mixture needs to be still hot and if it cools the balls won’t be formed.
- Keep using the water by wetting your palms nicely to form teach ladoo.
- Once you are done making all the ladoos, take one ladoo each again and press again to reshape them to form a perfect ball, repeat this process for all the ladoos.
Notes
- For extra shine, apply ghee on your palms and reshape the ladoos the final time.
- Wet your palms each time you form the ladoos.
- Ensure the sugar syrup is of one-thread consistency for the perfect texture.
- Store in an airtight container for up to a week.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: Indian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 ladoo
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 18
- Sodium: 10
- Fat: 5
- Carbohydrates: 25
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 3
- Cholesterol: 0