Rava ladu is a well known delicacy or sweet of Maharashtra, India. It is usually made during Diwali festival as part of Diwali faral. Diwali Faral is nothing but few snacks that are made and distributed among friends and families. They are made for the winter season.
Ingredients:
Rava (Suzi/
Semolina): 2 Cups
Grated Coconut (Fresh or Frozen): 1 Cup
Desi Ghee/ Tup (Clarified butter): ¾ Cup
Sugar: 1 ¾ Cup (Adjust sugar according to your taste)
Water: ¾ Cup
Velachi pud/powder (Cardamom powder): 1 Tsp (grind coarsely)
Badam (Almonds): 5-6 peeled & sliced
Bedane/ kishmish (Golden Raisins): 15-20
Grated Coconut (Fresh or Frozen): 1 Cup
Desi Ghee/ Tup (Clarified butter): ¾ Cup
Sugar: 1 ¾ Cup (Adjust sugar according to your taste)
Water: ¾ Cup
Velachi pud/powder (Cardamom powder): 1 Tsp (grind coarsely)
Badam (Almonds): 5-6 peeled & sliced
Bedane/ kishmish (Golden Raisins): 15-20
Procedure:
Take a non-stick pan and add ghee to it. Once the ghee is melted add rava
to it and keep stirring until golden in color (your kitchen will have beautiful aroma of this rava-ghee mixture, that's the indication of well cooked rava). Now add grated coconut to this
rava and keep stirring on a medium heat. Stirring is a very important step
while making these ladu because we don’t want to burn the mixture at any time.
Rava, coconut and other ingredients in this recipe really can get burnt quickly, so be
very careful. Now keep this mixture aside.
Take another
non-stick pan. Add water and sugar to make sugar syrup. We need to boil this syrup just for 2-3 minutes, once
it starts boiling and becomes transparent, immediately turn off the heat. This is also called as “Ek-tari pak”
in Maraathi language.
Now add velachi pood, badam,
bedane and rava mixture to this sugar syrup. Rava and coconut mixture will
absorb the sugar syrup in some time. Approximately after every 30-45 min keep
stirring this mixture. After 2-3 hours these ladus will be ready to roll in a
balls. Now make medium sized balls, you may need to put a little ghee on your
palms while rolling the balls. Garnish each ball with bedana or a raisin. Voila…Your
yummy Rava ladus are ready to dig in.
This mixture will make
approximately 12-13 medium sized ladus. Keep it in an airtight container in refrigerate
since it has coconut in it.
Don’t forget to enjoy these
yummilicious sweet J Happy Cooking!!!!!!
