The Recipe Room

I absolutely love this Rava Ladoo recipe. Rava Ladoo is a tasty dessert that is easy to make. Ladoos are small ball-shaped treats made with plenty of sugar and other spices such as cardamom, a typical spice that we Indians love to add to dessert (try these Pistachio and Cardamom Bicuits).  Ladoos are excellent for parties because they are a nice, small snackable size. This is why in India they are served during holidays and festivals. Once made, ladoos can be stored and last up to a week, so you can prepare this dessert well ahead of any party you’re planning on throwing. That way you don’t have to leave them until the last minute.

Ingredients:

• 150ml unsalted butter
• 80g raisins
• 400g semolina
• 400g sugar
• ½  teaspoon cardamom powder
• 25g cashews and pistachios, crushed
• 400ml whole milk

Preparation Method:

1. Crush the cashews and pistachios and set them aside. The mixture should have the same amount of cashews as pistachios.
2. In a large frying pan, sauté the raisins in the butter. Stir them slowly so they are all evenly cooked. This should make the raisins nice and plump.
3. Take the raisins out of the butter. Drain them well so that they are not greasy. Set them aside.
4. Using the same butter, add the semolina. Stir it constantly for 3-4 minutes so that it is evenly cooked.
5. Add the sugar and continue stirring slowly.
6. Add in the cashew and pistachio mixture, cardamom powder and the raisins and keep stirring.
7. Slowly stir in the whole milk.  Stir until the milk is fully absorbed.
8. Once the milk has been fully absorbed, take the frying pan off the stove and let everything cool down for 5 minutes.
9. Now you are ready to make it into little lime-sized balls. Don’t wait until it gets too cold, because then it will not hold the shape. But since it is still very hot, I recommend using an ice cream scooper to form the balls.
10. Leave them on a slightly greased platter. They should be separate so that they don’t stick together.
11. Let them cool down for at least an hour before serving.

Makes: 35-40 ladoos

Takes: 30 minutes

Tags: butter, cardamom, cashews, desserts, Indian food, Ladoo, milk, pistachios, raisins, Rava Ladoo, semolina, sugar

This entry was posted on Friday, 1 June, 2012 at 12:02 pm by Jay Ahmed and is filed under Desserts, Less than 1 hour. You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed RSS 2.0. You can leave a comment, or make a trackback from your own blog.