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Diwali Delicacy: 5 minute Besan Laddoos

November 7, 2007

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Recipe for Microwave Besan Laddoos / Maaladu / Chickpea flour laddoos – a 10 minute recipe

Talking about Laddoos, i have never been too fond of them, except for Moti Choor Laddoo, which I would never dream of making at home. Any part of India and you’ll find several varieties of them made with a variety of flours, and methods. As far as I can understand, for any laddoo made from using flour, the flour needs to be roasted till aromatic and during the roasting process, a certain amount of fat like ghee is used to cook the flour while roasting. Some more fat is used to bind the sweetened roasted flour into round shapes and a laddoo is born

Not being the Laddoo liking girl, and my husband also not being a guy who is especially fond of them, I have never tried making them. When this particular discussion on Diwali treats went on and on about the quick and easy, microwave besan laddoos, I had to make this to take to my parents and aunts for Diwali, because this is something they all love

Each batch makes 10. The first batch I followed the recipe to the T, just increasing the microwave time as the flour did not seem roasted to my satisfaction as per the given time in the recipe. In the final stage of binding it into laddoos, I realised that the ghee quantity can be considerably reduced from the original 1/3rd cup as I have seen the laddoos made in my family to be much drier

Microwave Besan Laddoos

Active time: 5-7 minutes

Makes: 10 pieces

Source: Adapted from Samsung Microwave Recipes

[wpurp-searchable-recipe]Besan Laddoo / Maaladoo – Delicious besan laddoos in the Microwave in just 5 minutes 🙂 Give it a try! – besan [gram flour], ghee, powdered sugar (sold in Bombay during festival times as ‘Pithi Saakhar’) , cardamom powder, halves of cashew nuts fried in a little ghee for decoration, In a large microwave safe bowl, mix the besan and ghee. Microwave on HIGH for 5 minutes stirring well every one minute. [increase 2 more min if your machine power is low.; Once the flour seems slightly darker in colour and richly aromatic, remove from oven and allow to cool completely. This will take upto half an hour.; Once cooled, add 1/2 cup powdered sugar [NOT icing sugar], with cardamom powder into the roasted flour. Knead well to mix and shape into 10 balls pressing a slice of fried cashew on top.; These will harden as they cool. Store in airtight container.; [/wpurp-searchable-recipe]

Besan Laddoo / Maaladoo

Delicious besan laddoos in the Microwave in just 5 minutes 🙂 Give it a try!
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Cook Time 10 minutes mins
Total Time 10 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine Indian
Servings 10 piece

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup besan [gram flour]
  • 1/4 cup ghee
  • 1/2 cup sugar powdered (sold in Bombay during festival times as 'Pithi Saakhar')
  • 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
  • 10 cashew nuts ghee halves of fried in a little for decoration

Instructions
 

  • In a large microwave safe bowl, mix the besan and ghee. Microwave on HIGH for 5 minutes stirring well every one minute. [increase 2 more min if your machine power is low.
  • Once the flour seems slightly darker in colour and richly aromatic, remove from oven and allow to cool completely. This will take upto half an hour.
  • Once cooled, add 1/2 cup powdered sugar [NOT icing sugar], with cardamom powder into the roasted flour. Knead well to mix and shape into 10 balls pressing a slice of fried cashew on top.
  • These will harden as they cool. Store in airtight container.

Notes

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Comments

  1. Padmaja says: November 7, 2007 at 9:37 am

    hey nandita!! after a long time eh?? those laddus look absolutelt delicious!! nice n easy!!

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  2. Latha Narasimhan says: November 7, 2007 at 10:46 am

    Hi nandita! Hope you are fine now! Nice laddoos! Hoping to see more recipes!

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  3. Kamini says: November 7, 2007 at 11:43 am

    Lovely looking laddoos! I love “kadalamaavu” laddoos ever since my grandmother, who was handicapped, somehow made the effort to make them for me for my 11th birthday. They were her specialty, but what I especially appreciated was the effort she had to put in to make them. A labor of love, really!Kamini

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  4. Meeta K. Wolff says: November 7, 2007 at 12:16 pm

    Nandita, the ladoos look great. I really stuffed my face with them in Dubai. I just posted my Diwali special treat too and I wish you a Happy Diwali gorgeous!

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  5. Raaga says: November 7, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    am trying for the last hour to post a comment here and your blog won’t let me.am ready whenever you are. I love these laddoos… send me some and I’ll send you all moti churs :)Happy Diwali

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  6. Asha says: November 7, 2007 at 1:49 pm

    YUM! and quick in the MW too. I made Almond Burfis in the MW too. Enjoy.Happy Diwali!:)

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  7. Richa says: November 7, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    ladoo’s look so good 🙂 have to try the m/w version soon, i do remember tee’s recipe.Happy Diwali sweetie!

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  8. Anupama says: November 7, 2007 at 2:17 pm

    Very happy Diwali to you too Nandita. I am sure Mumbaikars must be going crazy with all the festivities. It’s a fab time of the year.

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  9. Namratha says: November 7, 2007 at 2:52 pm

    Wow this is easy and quick, great idea when we have to make large numbers…thanks for the recipe dear,Happy Diwali! 🙂

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  10. sunita says: November 7, 2007 at 9:16 pm

    I adore laddus and I’m going ga ga over your’s…so easy to make …thanks dear.

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  11. Redchillies says: November 8, 2007 at 1:52 am

    This is too good to be true! Besan ladoos are my all time favorite ladoos. What a simple recipe!

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  12. Latha says: November 8, 2007 at 7:22 am

    Happy Diwali to you and your family Nanditha! What a fun recipe! No toiling in the kitchen, i’ll take that anyday!

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  13. Cynthia says: November 9, 2007 at 2:31 am

    Happy Diwali!

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  14. Anonymous says: May 29, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    Wow…this is ACTUALLY good!I tried a few othr ‘easy’ versions of the besan laddus but none turned out as yum as this!! this is a keeper…Thank You!!:)

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  15. Anonymous says: November 11, 2012 at 3:43 pm

    I follow your blog once in a while … am a foodie … with a major sweet tooth … showed the recipe to my wife … helped her with it too … it turned out amazing … thanks a lot … keep up the good work.

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  16. Deepak says: October 19, 2016 at 5:23 pm

    Worked good.

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  17. nandita says: October 20, 2016 at 6:35 am

    @deepak thanks!

    Reply
  18. Deeksha says: November 5, 2018 at 11:57 pm

    Hey, I tried this today but it took way longer than 5 mins to roast the besan. Mine is a fairly decent microwave and highest is 900 watt but it still must’ve taken about 12 mins for the rawness to go.

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    • Nandita Iyer says: December 2, 2018 at 6:18 am

      Possibly because of the microwave–mine is 1200 watts and anything over 5 minutes would burn it down completely! thanks for trying.

      Reply

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