Maladu Recipe / Roasted gram dal ladoo.

Maladu is a delicious diwali sweet and can be made in any occasions. This is a healthy sweet made from fried gram (odachakadalai). I frequently make maladu and also many festivals like diwali... This is a good evening snacks for children too. Maladu or Maa ladoo is a popular south indian ladoo variety.. The protien rich, south indian ladoo that is supposed to have originated from the distict of tirunelveli. It is also called as pottukadalai urundai...

Me and my daughter loved this ladoo and she ask me to prepare this ladoo daily... But i make this weekly once to her.. You could prepared this ladoo not only for diwali but anytime as you want... Because it is such a easy peasy recipe...Making ladoo are one of the tricky part in cooking.. Because you need to adjust the sugar to the right consistency and add the mixture slowly to the ghee and make ladoos... 

This one is the quickest and easiest ladoos you can never imagine... So i hope that you must give a try and comments on my blog about the recipe..

Preparation time : 15 mins

Makes - 8 to 10 ladoos

Recipe Cuisine : South Indian..

INGREDIENTS :

Roasted gram / Pottu kadalai - 250 gms

Sugar - 150 gms

Ghee - 50 gms

Cardomom powder - 1 tspn

METHOD :

• Grind the fried gram along with sugar in a mixer to a coarse powder...
• Take the gram flour in a mixing bowl and keep aside..
• Add in cardomom powder to the mixture..
• Then heat a pan with ghee and pour a ladle of ghee (little by little) around the ground mixture..
• Make sure that the ghee - gram dal mixture is in a right consistency that lets you make small lemon sized balls
• Do not add too much of ghee then we cannot make stiffer ladoos.
• The delicious maladu is ready for serving. Store it in an air tight container...

NOTES:

1. You may also grind the gram into fine powder...
2. You may alsoadd in fried cashew along with the ghee and mix to the mixture...
3. Adding ghee little by little make the ladoo stiffer..
4. When you add more ghee makes it easy for us to make ladoos but the ladoo would not be stiff and it will easily became clumpsy..
5. Make the ladoo and check the ladoo are they stiffer if not add little more ghee and then try again.. 

PICTORIAL :

Take your ingredients

Add sugar to the blender

Add roasted gram dal

Grind it into coarse form

Now transfer it into the bowl

Add in cardomom powder

Mix well

Add ghee to the pan 

Heat it well

Now take the mixing bowl

Add ghee little by little 

Press firmly to form balls

Like this

It's done

Enjoy....