boondhi ladoo

Yogambal used 1 cup sugar for 1 cup besan flour.. Revathy used 1.5 cups of sugar for 1 cup besan.. I used 1.25 sugar for 1 cup besan. Inbetween the two.Used mix of yogambal and revathy shanmugam recipe.

Below measure makes 25 to 28 ladoos:

Besan flour - 2 cups

Baking soda - 1/4 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Water - little less than 1 cup. To make batter to dosa batter consistency.

Brown Sugar - 2.5 cup (Besan:Sugar = 1:1.25)

Water for Sugar syrup - 1 cup (Sugar:water = 1: 0.5)

Oil for frying.

K sieved besan flour but it was not mentioned in the recipe. 

Start the Sugar syrup and turn on the oil stove. While the oil heats up prepare batter.

Mix the dry ingredients (besan flour, baking soda and turmeric) together. Add water.

Sugar syrup:

0.5 or 1 string. No more than 1 string for Sugar syrup. After sugar melts keep in low flame and stir occasionally. Add few strands of saffron to sugar syrup. 0.5 tsp of cardamom powder.

Frying:

Keep in medium flame and fry. NO low flame for boondi. Tap the boondi karandi for muthu muthu boondi. Fry it for mukka padham. Take some boondhi and pulse it in mixie. 

Add boondhi to sugar syrup when sugar syrup is warm and not hot. In 2 tbsp of ghee, fry 20 broken cashews, 20 raisins and 8 krambhu. Add it to the boondhi and sugar mixture. Stir them all together.

Let boondhi soak in sugar syrup for an hour. Give it a stir few times. 

When ready to make balls, If it crystalizes, sprinkle some water, put it on the stove, stir it will melt and you can make balls.