Soan Ladoo Recipe / Chana Dal Laddu Recipe / Kadalai Paruppu Ladoo

I have not seen anyone other than our family making this recipe. This unique recipe belongs to my grandma and passed on to our generations. This ladoo is called Soan ladoo because "Soan" in hindi meaning "golden". These ladoo represents golden balls and tastes delicious too.

Soan Ladoo Recipe

I had already posted this recipe long back in 2009 and re-posting again with best pictures
Ingredients
Bengal gram dal / Chana dal - 2 cups
Sugar - 2 cups
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
Cashewnuts broken - 15 nos
Ghee - 1/4 cup
Oil - 1/4 cup
Orange / Kesari Color - few pinch

Kadalai Paruppu Ladoo

Method
1. Soak chana dal in water for 2 hours, grind soaked chana dal to slightly coarse paste.
2. Heat ghee and oil in a pan, when hot add cashewnuts fry till golden brown, drain and set aside.
3. In the same hot oil add the ground chana dal paste and 1/2 cup water, reduce heat and mix well.
4. Keep stirring and cook chana dal paste on low heat for about 15 mins until water is absorbed, raw smell leaves and chana dal mixture becomes pale yellow in color.
5. When chana mixture is well cooked add sugar, cashewnuts, cardamom powder and kesari color.
6. Now chana dal mixture will loosen as the sugar starts to melt, keep stirring until the mixture turns to thicken again like Kesari.
7. Remove pan from heat and allow to become warm.
8. When ladoo mixture is warm enough to handel with your bare hands grease your palm with ghee and start rolling lemon sized dough into ladoos.
Decorate ladoos with nuts if desired.

Chana Dal Laddu

Quick Besan Burfi with Condensed Milk

Besan Burfi with Condensed Milk

Ingredients
Besan/ Kadalai Maavu - 2 cups
Condensed Milk - 400 gms
Ghee - 8 tbsp
Cardamom powder - less than 1/4 tsp

Easy Besan Burfi

Method
1. Roast besan flour with ghee in a pan for 15 mins on low heat until raw smell leaves.
2. When besan flour is well roasted add cardamom powder and condensed milk to the pan.
3. Keep stirring until mixture thickens and forms to big mass leaving sides of pan.
4. Transfer mixture to greased plate and cut into desired shapes.
5. Allow completely to cool and enjoy.

Besan Burfi

7 Cup Burfi / Seven Cup Sweet

7 Cup Burfi

Ingredients
Kadalai mavu / Besan - 1 cup
Ghee - 1 cup (melted)
Grated coconut - 1 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Sugar - 3 cups

Seven Cup Sweet

Method
1. Grease a tray with ghee and keep it ready.
2. Roast besan slightly and allow to cool.
3. In a large bowl combine all ingredients and whisk together to get lump free mixture( will look like Dosa
    batter).
4. Pour this mixture to nonstick pan and place on medium heat. Keep stirring until mixture thickens and forms     to bubbly big mass, which will not stick to sides of pan( will take around 7 to 8 mins).
5. At this stage transfer this mixture to greased tray and level it.
6. Cut them to squares when they are warm ( as we do for any Burfi or Mysore pak) and allow to cool.

Tips
You can substitute 1 cup ghee with 1/2 cup oil and 1/2 cup ghee
Also can substitute grated coconut with grated carrot.

Seven Cup Burfi

Maida Cake / Maida Burfi

Maida cake sweet

Ingredients

Maida- 1 cup

Sugar- 2 cups

Ghee- 1/2 cup

Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp

Cashew nuts broken required

Color- little

Water- less than 1/4 cup

Method

1. Grease tray and keep ready, heat ghee in a pan, when it's hot fry cashews keep aside.

2. Next add maida to hot ghee in the pan pan and roast until nice aroma comes, remove pan from heat and place on kitchen counter.

3.Dissolve sugar with water in a pan, add essence and color, place pan on heat and boil until you get one sting consistency. 

4. Immediately pour this sugar syrup to pan which roasted maida and cashews is kept. Keep stirring the maida mixture( the pan need not be on stove it can be on kitchen counter) at first mixture will loosen, then forms to big mass which will not stick to sides of pan. 

5.Quickly transfer this to greased tray n cut into squares.