PORIKADALAI LADDU-ROASTED GRAM DAL LADDU -POTTUKADALAI LADDU

PORIKADALAI LADDU

 This snack is my hubby's favorite...Making of this laddu takes not more than 15 minutes, within 15 minutes you get 16-18 small sized laddus . 

 This one we call, திடீர் லட்டு (quick laddu)

Let's go to the preparation...

Ingredients:

Roasted gram dal(பொட்டுகடலை)  powder -  2 1/2 cups

Powdered sugar.                                                -1 1/4 cups

Cashew.                                                            - 2 tbsp ( chop into small pieces)

Ghee.                                                                  -4 tbsp

Making:

1.  Start the process by making powder,first make roasted gram dal powder by grind.                       

      2 1/2    cups       roasted gram dal in mixer( approximately 1 cup dal yields 1 1/4 cup 

      powder). Then grind sugar and make powder,if you have powdered sugar in home ,then no 

      problem, use it.

2. Actual proportion , for 1 cup dal powder :,1/2 cup powdered sugar

3. Pour 1/2 tbsp ghee in a pan ,roast cashew in low flame  and take out when it 

    slightly turns brown.

4. In a bowl add roasted gram dal powder ,powdered sugar and cashew ,mix well with 

     a fork ,check whether they are evenly mixed .

5. Again in the same pan pour the ramaining ghee ,put stove in low flame ,ghee starts melting in the pan and now before the smoking temperature ( before smoke comes) lift the pan and pour melted ghee into the bowl  ,if ghee is heated enough you can see bubbles like in the below picture ,quickly mix the powder with fork,now it looks like crumbs ,take some crumbs in your hand ,make round  shaped laddu  by giving  enough pressure to that crumbs ,hold them tightly,so that it won't break,

Note:

Make laddus as quickly as possible before it cools down ,I usually pour little by little ghee to portions of powder and make laddus ,at that time also we have to keep the ghee in low flame (during the whole process keep ghee heated ). 

We get  16 laddus out of this flour.

If ghee is not heated well ,then it  needs more ghee  ,I use 4 tbsp ghee for these laddus.

We can also mix vanaspathi/ dalda with ghee ,instead of using only ghee.

Chop cashews into small pieces ,or it's tough to make laddus.

 We can also make this laddu with moong dal ,same process,instead of using gram flour use moong dal roasted and make powder and follow the same method.

That's it, 

    Our delicious and easiest laddu is ready......