Boondi Laddu

INGREDIENTS :

Gram Flour - 1 Cup
Sugar -1 1/2 cup
Oil - To fry
Cardomom - 5 pods
Cashews and Raisins - Desired


PREPARATION:

1 . Put the sugar and water in a pan ,boil it to make the sugar syrup.
2 . Meanwhile make the gram flour batter to make the boondis. It should be thicker than dosa batter and should be free of lumps.
3 . You can use the Skimmer /jalli karandi to make boondis.
4 . Heat the oil in the pan and now hold the skimmer few inches above the oil pan.
5 . Now pour the gram flour batter over the skimmer and the batter now drops in small round shapes into the oil,gets fried and becomes gold fried boondis.
6 . Now take the boondis out of the oil and put them into the sugar syrup directly.
7. Repeat the same process of making boondis with rest of the batter.
8. Once done with all the batter , the boondis in the syrup can now be smashed a bit and warmed now.
9. Add cardomom powder ,and fried cashews and raisins into the boondis.
10. Dont let the boondis to cool, instead when they are warm enough to handle,you can roll the boondis together and form Laddus of desired size.
11. Once the laddus becomes cool,they will become firm and in perfect shape.

The first time i made Laddu.. I wasnt able to make them into round shape/laddus... but still we enjoyed eating them as " Sweet Boondis"

I also made a part of Boondis mixed with chilli powder and salt rather than putting them in the sugar syrup...making "Kaara Boondis"

Finally to conclude .. this boondi making can result in any of the three snacks! Enjoy!