Motichur ladoo is delicious, melt in mouth Indian sweet recipe we usually prepare during our festivals. Basically, It is an exotic indian sweet prepared with besan florets. First, the florets are soaked with sugar syrup. Then, they are transformed into lemon-sized balls known as laddus. This is very much like boondi ladoo where the florets are in big size.
About ladoos
Ladoos has a long history. And I could say that Ladoos are the National sweet dish of India ;). The origin of this ladoo was more due to the medicinal properties of the ingredients. These ingredients offered benefits beyond being a sweet. It is said that these ladoos were given to teenage girls to keep their raging hormones under check. In fact, treatment was the reason for the discovery of some popular ladoos. These ladoos include methi, makhana, and sonth.
So traditionally,motichoor ladoo is prepared with motichoor laddu jara or jharna. you can easily find these with the halwais or professional cooks. however, i have used fine vegetable strainer with small holes and later crush the boondis to a coarse powder to get the perfect result.
The whole process of making ladoos took a lot of time specially preparing the boondis. dont be scare, The preparation of motichur ladoo is very very easy but just a time-consuming. The major difference between motichur ladoos and boondi laddu is the size of the boondis(florets) used in it. There is no doubt that motichur ladoos are prepared with the smaller boondis and also, orange food color added to differentiate both the recipe:)
I have used the food color to get the orange color in mothichoor ladoo recipe. if you do not have orange food color than you can mix yellow and red color to make it orange. adding food color is optional and you can totally skip it. besan florets would anyway have the rich yellow color and it is sufficient for these ladoos. usually, food color is added to make it more attractive and presentable. if you are making these laddus just for your family than skip it.
Reasons to love these motichur ladoos
- melt in mouth recipe
- sooo delicious
- super soft and perfectly balanced
- perfect festival recipe
- easy to prepare(but time-consuming which is totally worth;))
- ingredients are easily available
- prepared under 10 ingredients
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How to(with pictures)
Notes
- Add a generous amount of food color to get rich orange color.
- If you feel that after adding boondis into the syrup and still your are unable to form the ball then add a little amount milk and try to prepare ladoos.
- If your grater/strainer is very fine, then you can avoid blending the boondi to coarse powder.
- Make sure to attain 1 string consistency of sugar syrup, else you will not be able to prepare ladoo.
- Grease your hands with ghee to prevent from sticking.
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motichur ladoos recipe
Ingredients
for besan batter
- 1 cup gram flour, known as "besan" in hindi
- ¼ cup milk
- ¼ cup water
- a pinch baking powder, optional
- 3-4 drops orange food color, ¼ teaspoon if using powdered color
for boondis
- oil, to deep fry boondis
- fine grater/strainer
for sugar syrup
- 1 cup sugar
- ¼ cup water
- 3-4 drops orange food color, ¼ teaspoon if using powdered color
- ½ teaspoon cardamom powder
- ¼ cup dryfruits, chopped, I used cashews and pistachios here
Instructions
to make besan batter:
- In a large mixing bowl sieve besan and pinch of baking powder.1 cup gram flour, a pinch baking powder
- Add orange food colour and give a rough mix. add milk and mix.3-4 drops orange food color, 1/4 cup milk
- Now add water slowly and prepare smooth flowing batter.1/4 cup water
boondi preparation:
- Take fine vegetable grater/strainer.fine grater/strainer
- Pour prepared besan batter.
- Slowly tap and make sure the drops of besan fall into oil.oil
- Fry them until golden brown.Take off and drain over the kitchen paper towel.
preparing sugar syrup:
- In a kadai, take cup of sugar and add water. also add food color.1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup water
- Mix well till you attain 1 string consistency.
mothichoor laddu recipe:
- Add cardamom powder in prepared sugar syrup and give a good mix.1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder
- Now take prepared boondi and blend 3-4 pulses in mixi to form coarse powder.
- Then add prepared coarsed boondi to a sugar syrup.
- Mix well and make sure to coat the all the boondi with sugar syrup.
- Add some chopped dry fruits and mix well.1/4 cup dryfruits
- Cool it down.
- Prepare the ladoo taking a small amount of boondi.
Notes
- Check notes and other section for more details.
We are all about keeping raging teenage girls hormones in check! LOL However, also super delicious for the rest of us that want a delicious simple treat. Thinking we would love just eating the recipe at the point just before you add the syrup as so crunchy and those little CRUNCHY dots of deliciousness. Yum! Sharing, of course.
What a lovely delicious treat these are, a perfect festival treat 😀
yeah,It is.Thank you so much 🙂