Boondi Laddu

Ingredients

Gram flour 2 cups
Sugar 2 cups
Baking soda ½ tsp
Cashewnuts 50 gms
Raisins 50 gms
Cardamom 15 nos
Saffron few strands
Milk few drops
Ghee ½ kg

Method

* Shell and powder cardamom. Add ¼ cup water to sugar, heat until sugar melts. To check if the sugar solution is ready, take a drop of the solution and drop it in water-if it remains intact and does not dissolve right away in water, the sugar solution is ready.
* Add saffron and cardamom powder to it. (While preparing the sugar solution, add a few drops of milk. Impurities will collect on the surface in a layer - remove it.) .
* Add soda and water to gram flour, and make a paste, without lumps. Paste should not be too watery
* Heat ½ kg. of ghee. Put gram flour in boondi maker and fry boondi. Remove when light yellow.
* Fry cashew and raisins. Add boondi, cashew and raisins to sugar solution and mix. Cool.
* Rub some ghee on your palms. Make laddus by squeezing the boondi in your hands.