Rava Ladoo - for a perfect evening snack

Rava Ladoo - easy recipe without sugar syrup

Quantity - Makes 21 small ladoos

Ingredients -

Fine Rava/Semolina - 2 cups
Homemade ghee - 4tbsp
Raw sugar powdered - 1 and 1/2 cups
Raisins - a fistful
Cashews - a fistful 
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp 
Milk - 1/4th cup 

Procedure -

1. Heat a pan and add 1 tbsp ghee to it . Let the ghee melt and roast raisins and cashews . Roast till cashews turn light brown and raisins puff up . Remove and keep aside to use later
2. In the same ghee pan , roast rava nicely . Mix well all the ghee and keep stirring till you get slight brown color  . Also this will be accompanied by nice aroma of ghee roasted rava .
3. Remove rava and let it cool a bit.
4. Now in a mixer , grind raw sugar finely into a powder . Add cooled rava to this powdered sugar in mixer and again pulse couple of times till you get fine mix of sugar and rava . 
5. Next, in the same pan used for roasting rava , melt 3 tbsp of ghee .
6. While ghee is melting , mix rava sugar with fried raisins and cashews . Mix everything well .
7 . Pour the melted hot ghee on this mix . With help of a spoon start mixing ghee and ensure rava gets coated with ghee .
8 . To make the mixture a bit wet , add warmed 1/4th cup of milk . Mix everything nicely 
9 . Now that the mix is bit wet , start rolling ladoos out of the mixture .
10 . If anytime the mixture becomes dry , add some hot ghee and continue to roll . But the key here is to finish rolling everything before the mixture becomes cold . 

Serve as an evening snack with your favorite chivda or with chai/coffee :)


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