Recipe: Badaam Laddoo
Ingredients For cover:
- 2 cups almonds(soaked & peeled)
- 3/4th cup milk
- 1 tbsp ghee
- 1/2 cup khova/mawa
- 10-12 cardamoms (powdered)
For Sugar Syrup::
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup water
Mathod:
Grind the peeled almonds to a thick coarse paste. Do not use water to make the paste. Heat a non-stick pan on a medium flame. Add milk, ghee and almond paste to it. Keep stirring till the milk completely mixes with the almond paste. Bring it to a boil and cook till the almond paste is cooked well. in the meanwhile, prepare the sugar syrup. Take 1 cup of sugar in a vessel. Add 1/3 cup of water to it. Mix and stir till the sugar completely dissolves in water and then keep the vessel on a medium flame and bring it to boil. When it starts boiling, remove the mixture from flame. Add khawa and sugar syrup to the mixture and mix till the sugar syrup combines well with the almond paste. Once, the sugar syrup and khawa is added, the mixture starts to loosen a bit. Stir constantly to make it thick.
Add cardamom powder the mixture when it becomes very thick. Cook till lumps are formed. Once the mixture turns to lumps, remove from flame. When the mixture is warm, make small balls and place them on a flat plate. Once the laddoos come to room temperature, store them in an airtight container.
Enjoy..