Maladdu

I tried to make a different sweet for my husband who love most of the Indian desserts.

We make a sweet with roasted gram Dal(pottukadlai) but I have added few more nuts to it and made it a more crunchier  and tastier sweet.

Maladdu

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups pottukadlai (roasted gram dal)

1/2 cup cashew nuts

1/2 cup almonds

1/2 cup ghee

1 cup powdered sugar

4 to 5  green cardamom (crushed)

Tips

I have added nuts, you can try adding any other nuts of your choice and a few raisins towards the end before making laddus.

Method

*In a thick bottomed pan pour a tablespoon of ghee,add almonds,  roasted gram dal, cashews and green cardamoms until they are crunchy.

*Powder sugar, keep aside.

*Heat ghee in very low flame. Keep aside.

*Once the nuts and gram dal reach room temperature,make a fine powder of it in mixer.

*Add powder sugar, gram dal, nuts, ghee and gently mix in. Once it's done use hands to make laddus. Press and hold for a while as you roll laddus.

*We can make approximately 20 lemon sized laddus. All you have to do is leave it on the dining table in a an tight container. By evening it will be almost over!!