Baked Besan Ladoo recipe
Baked Besan Ladoo recipe, a healthier twist on a classic treat, made with just 2 tablespoons of desi ghee. Indulgence simplified!
Ingredients
1 cup = 250 ml
- 1 cup besan
- 1 tbsp desi ghee
- water as required
FOR CHASHNI
- 1/2 cup sugar (we used white khandsari sugar)
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 tbsp desi ghee
- 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
- Pinch of saffron food colour
- 1 tbsp melon seeds
Instructions
- Take a pan and dry roast besan till it's slightly brown and it's raw aroma is gone.
- Add 1 tbsp desi ghee and mix well.
- Remove pan from the heat and slowly start adding very little water.
- Keep mixing until besan comes together.
- Spread it on a greased baking tin.
- Bake in preheated oven @190°C for 30 minutes or until crisp.
- Remove from the oven and let cool down completely.
- Grind to a coarse powder.
- For chasni, add water, sugar, food colour and cardamom powder.
- Boil till sugar melts.
- Add powdered besan, melon seeds and 1 tbsp of ghee.
- Mix well.
- Cook on low heat until mixture comes together like a mass.
- Off the heat and let it cool until touchable.
- Grease your hands with desi ghee and bind the mixture into ladoo one by one.
- Enjoy