Rava Laddu

Rava Laddu is a very tasty and very commonly made sweet, especialy in south india, on any festival.. and very easy to make, almost instantly.

My daughter loves them..

Ingredients :

• Sooji ( semolina ) - 1 cup
• Powdered Sugar - 1 cup or to taste
• Milk - 1/2 cup
• Grated Coconut- 1/4 cup
• Cashew nuts - 10
• Raisins - 10
• Cardamom powdered- 1 pinch
• Ghee - 2 tbsp

Directions :

• Take a pan and heat ghee . Add all the dry fruits ( cashew nuts , raisins , chironji ) and fry till they get golden brown in color. Keep them aside.
• Boil milk and let it cool a bit. It should be lukewarm.Keep aside.
• Now in the same ghee, roast sooji till golden brown. Transfer to a mixing bowl.
• Heat one more tbsp of ghee and roast grated coconut in the same pan till slight brown. Add this in the rava.
• If you do not have powdered sugar, powder the sugar in a grinder and add that to the mixing bowl along with rava and coconut.
• Now add the roasted cashew nuts and raisins and powdered cardamom powder to the mixing bowl too.  Mix well.
• Now add milk very slowly ( spoon by spoon ). We need not add the entire milk, we need just enough milk to be able to bind the laddus.
• Take a lemon sized portion of the mixture and bind it firmly into a laddu. Similarly make laddus of the remaining mixture and store it in an air tight container in room temperature.

At this point laddus are too soft and have the tendency to break, so let them stand for an hour so that they are little hard.

Tip : You can use water instead of milk if you have intensions of storing them for longer period.


Enjoy !! :)