Motichoor Ladoo On Diwali

Diwali Puja is incomplete without offering ladoo to Lord Ganesh who is delighted with these special balls prepared with besan in pure desi ghee. Here is the recipe about how to prepare Motichoor Ladoo on Diwali festival to delight god, goddess and the family. 

Ingredients:

1/3 cup milk (doodh)

1/2 kg sugar (cheeni)
1/2 kg bengal gram flour (besan)
1tblsp pistachios (pista)

1tblsp raisins (kishmish)

few drops orange (santra) colour
pure ghee for frying
a pinch baking powder

Instructions:

• Sieve gram flour, add baking powder and mix it well.
• Add 2 tblsp of melted ghee and enough water to make thick batter.
• Heat up ghee in a kadhai and with a perforated (holes) spoon drop boondis in ghee.
• Rub the batter on the spoon (karchi) with holes so that small drops of batter drop in oil, simultaneously tap the spoon on the rim of kadhai also.
• Fry boondis till golden brown, remove and keep away for normal temperature.
• Meanwhile make sugar syrup mixed in colour.
• Put the fried boondis in this syrup, mix in the raisins and grated pistachios.
• When mixture cools down slightly use buttered hands to make ladoos.