Monday, October 24, 2011
Rava Laddu / Laadu - Happy Deepavali!
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Happy Diwali!
Filling our hearts
With eternal delight
Hope, joy, prosperity
and health
Wishing you happiness
& Peace
Happy Diwali!
This has been and still is the favorite time of the year for me and will always be. The excitement and fun as kids when we used to get our yearly package of fire crackers and new clothes and all those home made sweets and savories prepared with so much love are still fresh in my memory!
And today as we prepare for tomorrow's traditional oil bath which will commence at the crack of dawn, I wanted to post the recipe for a very simple yet the most exotic piece of bliss, the rava laddu.
Rava Laddus or Laadu as we call it in my mother tongue Kannada are sweet semolina balls with raisins and cashews and flavored with cardamom and saffron. The cashews and raisins fried in home-made ghee give the roasted semolina the ever so perfect flavor.
I tried to recreate my mother's recipe today but I was not very happy with the shape of the Laddus. As much as I tried I could not get those perfectly rounded Laddus!
This delicious platter of Laddus is going to the events: Diwali - Festival of Lights and Serve it series - Festival Potluck.
Ingredients:
1 cup fine semolina
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup ghee
4-5 cardamom pods, powdered
a few saffron strands
handful of cashews and raisins
Recipe:
Heat 1 tsp ghee in a pan. Lightly roast the cashews till they turn golden brown and set aside. Add the raisins to the same ghee and fry till they puff slightly. Take them out and set aside.
To the same pan, add the rest of the ghee. Roast the semolina in the ghee on a low flame till the color changes to golden brown and a nice aroma comes out. Set aside.
Melt the sugar in water in a pan. Heat gently and keep stirring till the sugar syrup attains a one-string consistency. This means, when you lift the spoon from the syrup, the syrup must drop in a single sticky strand.
Now take off the heat and stir in the roasted semolina slowly without forming lumps.
Stir in the cardamom powder, cashews and raisins.
Allow the mixture to cool a bit. When still warm, take a handful of mixture into greased hands and form small balls.
Time Required: 30 minutes
Yields: 20 laddus
19 comments:
Wow, I have been so wanting to make this in a while now...
!!! A Very happy Diwali to you & your family!!!
Muskaan
those laddoos look perfect!.. Happy Diwali to you too.. my mom also makes perfect round laddoos.. and i usually run out of patience..
Than you for dropping by my blog!
Richa @ Hobby And More Food Blog
Your laddoos look great!! My mom makes laddoos the same way, and yes they are kind of difficult to shape. I avoid making the sugar syrup and use milk instead...makes it easier:)
Happy Diwali to you!!
The laddus look super delicious, forget the shape and concentrate on the taste :) Wish you a happy Diwali!
Happy Diwali!!!!!
Thank you Muskaan and Soujanya for your wishes! Hope you are having a nice festival too.
Richa, thanks for dropping by and hope you liked it here!
Poornima, using milk to shape the laddus is a nice idea, I will definitely give it a try. Thank you!
Tadka Pasta thanks for your encouraging words and wishes!
A very happy Deepavali to you!
Hapy diwali and this looks lovely for the occasion.
Laddoo looks yummy!! Wish you Happy Diwali :)
Lovely ones !!
I still haven't tried my hand at laddus .
Happy Deepavali, again!
Soumya
Happy Diwali Keerthana! Those laddu's looks so delicious and festive :)
wow...looks gorgeous...such a nice color imparted n toooooooo tempting dear..;)
Tasty Appetite
They look so scummy n delectable ~ festive for sure!
USMasala
Those look delicious, and so do many more recipes here. Off to check out the Shrikhand. Happy Belated Diwali to you!
Thank you for your good wishes and comments. Hope all of you had a great Diwali too.
Looks SO delicious!!
how cool is that, Rawa laduus! I ll make that to impress my mother in law. ;)
Thank you Kulsum :)
Helene, I'm sure she will love them :)
looks so pretty.. brough back memories of moms rava laddu :)
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