Boondi Ladoo
My friend Raji and I have been making Boondhi laddoo for Diwali since 8 years. The first time we ended up making a whooping 450 laddoos because we didn’t know how many laddoos we will get for each cup of flour! But the laddoos tasted great and we could call ourself experts from then on! 🙂 I usually make these a day prior to diwali. This time I decided to make a small quantity for posting in the blog. Making small quantities is challenging too! Before you realise the syrup is ready! Menu Today is very right when she says method and measures must be right! Any sweet comes out well when you follow the correct method and measurements! 🙂 You will get around 25 laddoos for 250 grams of flour.
The teeny weeny laddoo in the middle is for all the fabulous kiddos we meet online like Anjana and (Sri) to the power 2 (Srivalli’s kiddos), Red chillies bundle of naughtiness, Medha (Manisha’s daughter), Kavin (Kribha’s son), Nirmala’s son Siva and her toddler, Laavanya’s baby, Hema’s lucky baby who gets a barn and a cake that looks like this and more that I might have missed.
Ingredients
- Kadalai maavu, besan or gram flour – 1 cup
- Rice flour – 1 table spoon
- Sugar – 1 and 1/2 cup
- Water for syrup – 1/2 cup
- Cardamom – 4 nos
- Lavang (Krambu) – 8nos
- Cashew – 10 nos
- Dry grapes – 10 nos
- Ghee 2 teaspoons
- Oil for deep frying – 250 ml
- Saffron colour – 1 pinch
Method
- Mix the water and sugar in a heavy bottomed pan and heat on a medium flame.
- The syrup should be of one thread consistency. The syrup will be ready when all the sugar melts. Add the cardamom powder and 1/2 pinch saffron powder to the syrup and mix well.
- Mix the flours and divide into 2 portions. Mix one portion with a little water to form a batter slightly thicker than dosa batter.
- Heat oil in a pan on a high flame.To test the temperature of oil just drop a pinch of batter. If it rises immediately the oil is ready for making the bhoondis.
- Hold the bhoondi karandi (perforated ladle) above the oil as shown in picture. Pour a ladle full of batter and spread as you would spread dosa. Immediately reduce the flame to low.
- Fry well till the sound stops. Drain and add to the syrup immediately. Rise the flame to high again before you fry the next batch.
- Make boondhis with rest of the batter. Keep mixing the syrup with boondhi. Mix rest of the flour with water and make the boondhis.
- Fry cashew nuts, dry grapes and lavang in ghee and add to the boondhis. Mix well and leave to cool for 10 minutes.
- Now you can start making balls out of the soaked boondhis. Towards end if you find it difficult, just heat on a low flame for 2 minutes stirring well.
- Store in airtight container. Will taste good after a few hours as the boodhis soak well.
TIPS
Laddoos are famous for getting spoilt soon. You can keep your laddoos for 10 days if you follow these tips.
- Use good quality sugar for all sweets.
- Fry the boondhis in low flame till the sound subsides.
- Use boiled or drinking water for the syrup and batter as it will reduce degradation due to oxidation.
- Store in dry airtight containers. Your hands should be clean and dry while serving the laddoos.
- Never use water if you are not able to get the balls. Mild heating will help you make the balls towards end.
So many of my visitors requested for this recipe. I hope all of you make great laddoos this Deepavali.
HAPPY DIWALI TO ALL!!
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Arusuvai Friendship Chain
After seeing many many posts on the Amish Friendship bread starter we have been inspired to start a friendship chain from here in India. For starters we’d like to focus locally – chain that spreads across foodies living here in India. Thanks Bhags and Bharathy for helping us come up with this.
Arusuvai Friendship Chain is about sending along a surprise ingredient as a gift to your friends for them to prepare something tasty with it, share the recipe, and pass on other surprise ingredients to more people. Arusuvai means six tastes (aru=six, suvai=taste) in Tamizh and is used to refer for Tasty preparation with six tastes – inippu/ thithippu (sweet), orappu/ karam (hot), kassappu (bitter) , pulippu (sour), uppu(salt), tuvarpu (tastes that one gets in raw leaves).
The chain will start with me passing on a “surprise” to Bharathy and Renuka, who will continue the chain. In other words, you need to wait for your turn to get a “surprise ingredient” to be a part of it. So the buck starts here 😀 and stops nowhere.
Arusuvai Logo – Transparent Background
Arusuvai Logo – white background
When you receive a package with a “surprise ingredient” as a part of Arusuvai here are the basic rules you need to follow:
- Prepare something tasty with it and post recipe with a picture if you are a blogger with the logo, a link to person who passed it to you and to this post if you like for reference.
- If you don’t blog, do share the recipe with the friend who gave it to you or post it as a guest post on someone you know who blogs.
- Pass on a “surprise ingredient” to two or more friends, one of whom must preferably blog. We all want to have some fun together right? 😀
Since this is starting here in India we request all people in India who blog or have blogged or those who’d like to be a part of this chain to show themselves up 😀 – we’ll ensure you get to be part of the fun.
Hello Ladies,
am glad to be back blog surfing after a long break…thanks for all your effort in preparing smaller quantities for the sake of the bloggers- your arusuvai chain idea is lovely…i was thinking we bloggers from India must start something similar to the friendship chain – glad you guys have taken the initiative…am going to check out all the posts i missed here now.
Wow your ladoos look wonderful I wish I could try some it’s not like you didn’t make enough… 😀
Looks great latha ma. My paati always makes this for diwali. By the time boondhi gets the shape of ladoos half will be gone. Nice slide show. I do not have a big jalli karandi to try it out. But will save the recipe for future. Thanks for sharing.
Also, Arusuvai is a really cool idea. Will look forward to be a part of it.
latha..nice idea..now i want in too..too bad ..i’m not in India…
🙂 Great idea, now it is our turn to get jealous of all the friendships you are weaving in India!
Yum! Boondhi laddoos make me nostalgic for home! Hey, we want Arusuvai to spread here too 🙂
hi latha ma’m
Thank u so much for ur boondhi laddu recipe.
This deewali I am going to try this one.Thanks
once again for ur post
kamala
First of all thank u so much for posting this recipe 🙂 I love laddoos and more than me,my husband is a big fan of these….I will make these as per ur recipe……450 laddoos in the first attempt…wow…wow…..That must be quite an attempt……Were u alright after that…I mean weren’t u very exhausted…?
And thatz a nice chain u started……..I am J :-))
Lathamma…hope your packet to me contains those yummy laddoos too :)..
Last Diwali.. I tried but flopped miserably with these cuties..
Thanks for the announcement and the great works behind Arusuvai..
Feeling so honoured to be the first receiver!!!..looking forward..:)..
Laskhmi, the logo is just awesome!!!:)
What?! No Laddoo for Tushar?:D
He doesn’t like Indian sweets, usually too sweet.I bought a HUGE Laddoo in the temple as a prasada in Nashville. I had to eat most of it. They are used to cakes and cookies with Vanilla flavor!
I tried making Boondi once, came out okay but Boondis don’t come out round but long like worms!:D
Enjoy the chain, do not send me any!! I have enough to cook for blogs already!Hahaha!
I love these ladu. I have ever since I was a child, we got them at especial occasions, like weddings, and my aunt used to come round and make millions of them. I do have a recipe on my blog, my ma and I make them – only 30 at a time!
Wow you made 450 laddoos. I would say you are a realy pro now.
They looks delicious
Boondi ladoo, is all time fav in my house. Thx for that wonderful round up.
what a beautiful idea 🙂 I loved ur ladoos..have been wanting to make these..Now i can 🙂 bookmarked
super sweet, Lathamma. Amma used to make this regularly and i used to assist in making the laddoo balls. She has this boondi jaarni and always made diwali treats on kerosene stove (coz we get in ration). and all the time telling me the little tricks n tips that i fortunately can remember if i think hard;) anyways looking at all these entries in blogs as diwali approaches make me realise my mom’s hardships, love…. and also regret that i never really learnt anything from her. but well it’s never too late, isn’t it! these days when i visit home i make it a point to atleast grind a different chutney for her. well well i’m getting emotional… it’s very usual for me during festive season as i miss my country and home. but i joke with my mom that she should make a will for all her irumbu saaman (esp dosai kallu) in my name and not to her dil;)
not fair Latha! what about the grown-ups who crave these laddoos??? they looks os alluring! looks like a lot of work:)
glad you guys in India can experience the friendship chain thing too!
First, thank you so much mami for the adorable ‘baby’ laddoo for all the kiddos… 🙂 very sweet of you. Another thanks for the detailed recipe for making laddoos.. i’ve been too intimidated by it. Maybe I’ll change my mind. Can we use the normal karandi with holes instead of the one specifically designed for boondhis?
That’s a great idea about an arusuvai friendship chain! 🙂 After you asked me about the batter I was thinking of how I could send it onto India but unfortunately nobody I knew was flying back home then.
Boondi laddu looks awesome. Drooling over them now. Happy weaving friendship thread in India. Such a nice initiative. 🙂
Laddoos looks wonderful…great help in recording them…and yes its fun to know Arusuvai has started…waiting to see what comes out of it…thanks for the laddoos to my kids…am sure they will love it…my twins love anything sweet and any new food too…:)
Amma and I bought a boondi karandi, but did nothing with it until now… it has been some 15 years 🙂 Maybe I’ll try 🙂
How do I show up? Can I raise my hand… or should I jump high and low so you’ll see me and know that I live in India too………. yes Latha, I’m interested 🙂
You made 450 laddoos…wow you should open a sweet shop during Diwali.
The chain idea is very beautiful
Boondi ladoos for me signify the advent of Diwali…mom makes loads of them during Diwali….
Arusuvai seems to be an apt name for the chain. Thanks for tking the initiative.
Lovely logo Lakshmi.
P.S. I myself deleted the comments from bharathy’s post….they were reposted
Laddo looks tempting and already added to my favourites…
Thanx for sharing the mini ladoo to all the kids…considering for my son ajay too..;D
And friendship chain is a welcome idea!!
I like the mini laddu, for sweet tooth like me all sweets in mini sizes can have a watch on the calories
Iam eagerly waiting for the ingredient and Iam priveledged to be first along with Bharathy to receive it.An excellent logo Lakshmi and a wonderful event too
Happy Diwali!!!
Wow! I am all set to visually devour the goodies.
oooy ooy whatz going on up there???I smell some conspiracy a little up???bhags you are not supposed to delete any comment from mine ;)… I am thinking of packing up a diwali cracker as the surprise ing for you ;)…
Hi Latha,
Simple and neat instructions for making ladoos. perfect looking Ladoos. thanks for sharing.
Beautiful logo for” Arusuvai”.
Hi Latha,
Thanks for mentioning..
So sweet of you for giving tiny ladoos for the kids. My younger ones name is Shakthis 😉 But If I say that u’ve posted this, Siva would start nagging me to get them. So on your Nov 15 visit to Chennai, I will send him to Lakshmi’s home 😉 Wonderful recipe. Need to try this. This is our family favorite anyway!
hi latha, i love these ladoos! you seem to be an expert in making them.
i am from Bangalore and waiting to be part of Arusuvai friendship chain!!!
Oh gosh Lathamma, How come I missed so many of ur posts.. bad Siri.. The concept of “Arusuvai Chain” is so sweet and innovative.. and so exciting as one doesn’t know what “surprise ingredient” is.. wish I could be in India.. Boooo.. 😦
and special mention about the “slideshow”.amma.. so sweet of u to post the step by step procedure.. esp for novice cooks like me..:)
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Hi! I tried the laddoo and it turned out soo nicely!!
Its so heavenly.Its very rare to find good authentic indian sweets here in Singapore.So, i miss good laddoos very much.I’m so happy the laddoo turned out well.Thanks a ton!
Ananya will love these laddoos and I respect the fact that you remembered her. She is becoming a sweet lover, unlike me and H:) Made therarripal and Kaju kathli this time, but no photos:( Happy deepavali to you and your family and Thanks for your wishes.
Thank you so much for posting the recipe. I made ladoos today and followed the recipe to the T and it was just awesome. I was just ecstatic since for me ladoos come from store and nobody in my family makes it or knows how to make it.
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Hi Latha
Nice recipe and vedio of the laddo. I love boondhi ladoos and so do my sons. Will surely try it when i find so much time. I would like to be part of the Arusuvai Chain. Tell me what i should be doing to be part of it. I stay in bangalore and i am new to blogging :).
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Thank you so much for the detailed recipe and the pictures. I always wanted to make these laddus but the boondis never came out right. I have a question about dividing the flour into two portions. Is there a reason for doing that? Don’t all the boondis just end up in the syrup after frying? Please let me know and thank you once again!
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Hi there Srivalli, Thank you for the tremendous effort & all the hard work. Arusuvai has finally reached me & I have made my post today. The link is http://passionateaboutbaking.blogspot.com/2008/02/friendship-spice-chinese-new-year.html
Do you know if Miri or Bindiya are still waiting? Or anyone else too! Fine with me. Arundati said you have a list…grateful if you could let me know.
Thanks a lot for everything & take care
Deeba
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Hi
someone sent me information about the chain. I googled it & hit this page.
I would love to join the Arusuvai chain. I have relocated to india recently.
thanks,
DG
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Hello,
I am new to blogging. Just came across your blog and found it very imformative. Thanks for making ladoo making so clear. Will try it one of these days.
HI. My first time here. Wow – I never thought that I would ever be able to make laddoo… but reading your post,.I am confident I can!! Yeah!! 🙂
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Great. I am planning to make this for diwali.
Thanks a lot
Great Cooking the whole process is interesting and special for great occasion like Diwali
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Loved the pictures and the recipe. Boondi laddoos remind me of Thirupathi.
Hi!!
wanted to say that the method of the receipe for the laddoos are easy here in australia I am going to try it out and Good on you to bring it into the internet……all the best & HAPPY DIWALI
Your recipe and measurements were perfect! I tried it for the first time and the ladoos came out great. Thanks for posting this recipe – it’s a keeper.
Very Good blog and good recipe. Congratulations
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Hello Latha and Lakshmi,
I stumbled on your blog this morning and absolutely loved it! Your recipes are mouthwatering and I plan to try out many of them. I also love the general air of something interesting cooking, not just in the kitchen. The miscellaneous articles on culture and family are fascinating, and my mother enjoyed them very much too. I immediately felt we had so much in common, and would like to meet or talk to you some time. I’m an Iyengar mami too, aged 51, with two grown daughters. I write for children, live in Bangalore, and love to cook though I’m a rather slapdash about it. Do call me! My phone no. is 080-26993100, Mob: 97409 29466.
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Hi Latha,
I am new to this blog. I have just made the ladoos. They have turned out very well. Thank you so much for this recipe. Happy Diwali to all.
Hi Latha Aunty
i tried ur boondi laddoo recipe for this diwali and it was awesome 🙂
Thanks a lot for posting such yummy recipes..esp. iyengar speciality dishes . Away from home, your recipes come in handy and i make it a point to refer your blog for any festival…great effort..keep posting more – Deepavali wishes to you.
Hello M’am!
Thank you for your ladoo recipe. Your very clear slideshow & instructions made my ladoos a success even though it was my ‘first time’. Also made seedai & thattai from your recipes. All for Diwali!! This is the first time I’ve made extensive palagaram.
I adore your site! What more can I say!!
hey, its my first time here.you have a fantastic blog and what a great idea!… i am new to blogging and i live in UK. can i take part in the arusuvai chain??? please I am dying to. my blog is http://www.kaarasaaram.com.
thanks in advance.
Revathi
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hi….,
thx. for the recipe….,
i just have one doubt, should i make the syrup and keep it and then add the boondhis into it…,
plz. clear ,,,
regd.,
thaila
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Mouth watering recipe. Keep it up
ladoo is one of my most favourite Sweet
Cheers
Prasad
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Diwali without the boondhi laddu is meaningless ! A savory item that my grandma used to make with these laddus is the kachori which used to disappear in minutes. Grandma passed away, but here is a site that explains the dish as well as her. http://www.ifood.tv/network/kachori
Thanks for this lovely account of the boondhi laddu. Kiran, thanks for the link on kachori. A li’l bit of hot food with the sweet will go well. 🙂
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Diwali also called Deepavali and also the “holiday of lamps”,
is an ancient Hindu holiday observed in fall annually.
The festival spiritually signifies the triumph of light over darkness, knowledge over
ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair.
The festival preparations and rituals normally go over a
five day span, but the primary festival night of Diwali coincides with the darkest,
new moon night of the Hindu luni solar month Kartika. In the Gregorian
calendar, Diwali nighttime falls between mid-October and mid-November.
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