HAPPY DIWALI!
I love occassions. Every birthday, every anniversary and every festival should be celebrated . I even make sure to do something on my half birthday most years (but it's best not to tell people because then you sound like a crazy person). So I get really upset when I hear stories about food adulteration, sweets made out of paint, milk with fertilizer in it and fruits with chemicals to make them grow faster. This diwali dinner serve sweets made out of ingredients you trust.
Makes 15. Will probably make more if you don’t
spill as much besan as I did.
What you’ll
need:
4 cups besan
1 cup ghee
1 ½ cup powdered sugar
2 tsp pounded green cardamom
½ cup chopped almonds/raisins/ other dried fruit
How to:
1. Roast the besan in a non stick pan. Stirring often
to make sure it doesn’t burn or stick to the bottom of the pan. It will start
to gently brown.
2. Add a cup of ghee and keep stirring till the ghee
melts and the whole mixture is a reddish golden brown. Take your time – as long
as the besan doesn’t burn you’re okay. You just don’t want to end up with the
taste of raw gram flour in your mouth.
3. Once nicely browned remove from pan and spread on
a tray to cool the mix. Stick it under a fan to speed up the process. Don’t let
the mix cool TOO much you just want to make sure it’s not hot anymore.
4. Add the sugar, powdered cardamom and chopped dried
fruits and mix well.
5. Bunch the flour into little balls to make your
laddoo. If you have any kids around this is a great task to delegate to them.
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