Rava Ladoo recipe
Ingredients:
- Rava – 1 cup
- Ghee – 2 tablespoons (you could use even unsalted butter)\
- Fresh gratted Coconut – 3/4th cup
- Sugar – 1 cup
- Milk – 1/2 cup
- Cardamom Powder – 1 teaspoon
- Saffron – 1 pinch put in hot milk for some time
- Raisins – 1/4th cup
- Nuts – 1/2 cup ( I mixed almonds, cashews and pistachios…you could even use walnuts)
Method:
- In a flat plate take sugar and keep that side.
- Melt the ghee in a non-stick pan on medium heat and fry the rava/semolina gently till golden brown and till you get a fragrant roasted rava aroma.
- The color will change slightly and also it won’t taste raw. Add this rava to sugar.
- Add 1tbsp ghee in the same pan on medium heat and roast the raisins for a minute till they puff up. Remove with a slotted spoon.
- In the same ghee, fry the nuts till golden brown and remove these too. Transfer these nuts to a chopping board and coarsely chop them.
- Now add fresh gratted cocnut and fry till the color change slightly.
- Now add dry fruits and coconut into the previous mixture(rava and sugar).
- Add luke warm milk and make small golf ball size of the mixture.
- Laddos are ready.