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Ladoo
Laddu or laddoo are ball-shaped sweets popular in the Indian Subcontinent. Laddus are made of flour, minced dough and sugar with other ingredients that vary by recipe. They are often served at festive or religious occasions.^[

Ingredients

• Besan/gram flour - 1 cup
• Rice flour - 1 tbsp
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Food color - few drops
• Water - 1/2 cup
• Oil - as required

Method

1. Take gram flour and rice flour in a sifter and sieve it.
   
2. Add in water and mix to a smooth batter. 
3. Add in water slowly and make it into a smooth batter. Now add in some food colouring. Mix well. The batter should be little thick, it should be thinner than bajji batter. Make the batter perfectly then only you will get round boondi.
   
4. Now heat oil for deep frying.
5. Now take a boondi karandi or a perforated ladle. Hold it over oil. Pour a ladleful of batter over the karandi and spread it out. The boondis will fall drop by drop.
   
   
   
   
6. Fry the boondi till they are little soft. Drain them and set aside.
   
7. Take sugar and water in a pan, mix well so it is melted. Bring it to a boil and cook till it attain a single string stage. When you take the spoon from the syrup and see, the last drop falling from the syrup form a single string like consistency.
   
   
   
   
8. At this point, take it off the heat.
9. Now take boondis in a bowl, add in the sugar syrup 
   
10. Mash boondi by spinning once in blender or using spoon.
    
11. Take a small portion of this mix and shape it into a tight ladoo.
    
12. Do this for all the mixture. Let this set for 2 to 3 hours untill it gets firm. 
    
13. Serve