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Bandaru Ladoo

The festival of Makar Sankranti is celebrated across the country of India. Being the harvest festival that it is, how can its celebrations be complete without delicious and mouth watering food. In fact, on this day, lots of cooking takes place and delicious food is served. Bandaru ladoo is one of those mouth watering dishes which are made on this day. It is a famous sweet dish of Andhra, the mere mention of which is enough to make one crave for it. This dish is particularly made on the festival of Makar Sankranti. Below, we have given the recipe of Bandaru ladoo, for you to know how to make it.

Bandaru Laddu Recipe

Ingredients

250 gm `Senaga Pindi' / Bengal Gram Flour
250 gm Sugar
1 tsp Cardamom Powder
Oil, to fry
50 gms Cashew Nuts, fried in a tbsp ghee

Method

Heat 4 tbs of oil and add it to `senaga pindi'
Mix well with hand and knead it into dough using water
It should not be too soft or too hard
The consistency should be like that of poori dough
Place the disc with medium size holes in the muruku press
Fill it with dough leaving space to place the upper part of the press
Heat the oil and carefully press the dough, like spirals and without overlapping, directly into the oil, keeping the bottom of the press 2 inches away from the oil
Take proper care that the hot fumes of oil does not reach your hands
Turn it over and remove when golden brown
Drain the oil and repeat the procedure till the dough is over
Powder them in a blender, measure and set aside
Take equal measure of sugar and make light syrup / `letha paakam'
Add the powdered spirals, cardamom powder and the cashew nuts to it and mix well.
Turn off the flame and make big lime size balls of it by smearing ghee to your palms.
Your delicious Bandaru ladoos are ready to serve.