Ingredients
- 7-8 cashews
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 cardamoms
- 1 cup besan/gram flour
- ¼ cup peanut oil
Preparation
- Break cashews into 4 pieces, roast and keep aside.
- Boil water and sugar to make syrup.
- Grind cardamom into a fine powder.
- In a thick bottomed pan, start dry roasting the besan on a medium flame until you get a pleasant aroma and it turns light brown.
- Add roasted cashews and continue roasting for a minute.
- Add half the portion of peanut oil.
- Break lumps and continue roasting on a medium flame for 2 more minutes.
- Immediately add sugar syrup and cardamom powder. Avoid lumps being formed.
- Wait till it cools a little and try making balls/ladoos. If mixture is dry, gradually add remaining peanut oil.