These melt in mouth treats are the perfect type of sweets for Diwali or other festivals, or simply when you crave them! Today’s Rava Laddo recipe is a very basic and simple Maharashtrian style recipe requiring very few ingredients and no advance preparation as such.
Mom made Rava laddu every year for Diwali along with other faral (snacks).
Between Rava and besan ladoo, I am a little biased towards these as I like their texture (crunch) more.
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There are multiple ways in which you can make Rava laddu recipe.
Some call for just basic ingredients like rava, sugar, ghee, cardamom, and nuts while some use rava in combination with fresh or desiccated coconut.
I love those Rava Coconut ladoos too that my mom makes, but I’ll share that recipe some other time.
For today, I’m excited to share my mom’s rava ladoo recipe that she makes with rava (sooji) and whole wheat flour. I know right, whole wheat flour??
Trust me, that was my reaction too when she told me the ingredients. But you just have to try it!!
Wholewheat flour is the secret ingredient to get those perfect ladoos.
It helps bind the ladoo still keeping them soft yet not making them crumbly and gives them texture too. Here is how to make those perfect rava ladoo!
1 - Heat a pan on medium low heat and add the rava to it. Roast stirring intermittently for 10 mins or until you get a nice aroma of the Rava.
2 - Then add the wheat flour to it and roast again for 10 mins. Make sure you roast on medium to low heat as we dont want the Rava or wheat flour to turn brown in color.
3 - Next add the ½ cup Ghee and mix well.
4 - Then add the raisins and cashews.
5 - Add the milk and mix again.
6 - Switch off the heat and allow the mixture to cool a bit. It should be light.
7 - Once the mixture is lukewarm add the cardamom powder and powdered sugar and mix well so that all is well incorporated.
8 - Now take a small portion in your hand, press gently between your palm and finger to form a rough ball (golf ball size), and then smoothen it by rolling it in the palms of both hands.
Garnish by pressing a raisin on the top of the ladoo. Set aside.
Repeat these steps to form remaining Ladoos . I was able to make 16 ladoos.
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