Rava laddu

Rava laddu is a popular laddu prepared almost in every household during festivals. I prepared during Holi celebration.Rava laddu is a simple and easy laddu made with very few ingredients.Just rava,sugar,nuts and coconut gives a wonderful flavor to this recipe. Rava is a very healthy ingredient which is widely used in many recipes.Most popularly it s used in the preparation of upma in mostly south India.Posting this recipe in Blogging marathon#74 under the theme Festival of India.

Ingredients:

• Rava or sooji ( Semolina)1 cup( 250 ml cup)
• sugar 1 cup
• Fresh or frozen grated coconut 3/4 cup 
• cardamom 6
• Raisins 10
• cashewnuts 10 to 15
• Ghee 1 tbspn
• Milk 2 tbspn for binding laddus

Procedure:

• Blend sugar into fine powder and keep aside.Remove the seeds from the cardamom and blend into fine powder. keep aside
• Heat a pan ,dry roast semolina on low flame around 10 mins or until  we smell nice aroma.Keep sauting in between,then we observe change in the color.Transfer this to another bowl,keep aside.
• In the same pan add ghee dry roast cashews raisins until golden brown.Remove and keep aside.
• In the same pan add grated coconut and roast few mins 3to 4 mins.
• Mix coconut,cashewnuts,raisins to the semolina mixture.Add 1 tbspn of ghee and mix it well.
• Now shape the mixture into laddus by adding very little milk.
• Store in airtight container and enjoy.

Note: key taste depends on how you roast the sooji.Make sure always fry sooji in low flame.

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