Motichoor laddoo

for boondi:

• 2 cup besan
• 2 tbsp rava / semolina 
• ¼ tsp saffron food colour
• 1½ cup water
• oil for frying

To a bowl add besan,rava,food color and 1 cup water. Mix them well without any lumps. Add remaining water and mix.Keep this aside.

Keep a frying pan on flame with oil.  With the help of a cheese grater or a slotted spoon drop in boodis to hot oil and remove once crispy.
If the boondis are a bit thick just crush them in a mixer to get finer boondis.

for sugar syrup:

• 1 3/4 cup sugar
• ½ tsp saffron food colour
• ½ cup water
• ¼ tsp cardamom powder
• ½ tsp lemon juice
• 2 tbsp cashew / kaju chopped
• 2 tbsp pistachios chopped

Instructions

1. firstly, to a large pan add in sugar,water and food color and let it boil. But it should.not reach string consistency.To this add lime juice and cardamon powder and just boil.
   

   
2. To this add in fried boondi and stir and continue to cook for 2 -3 minutes or until sugar syrup thickens. Switch off the flame.
3. cover and keep aside for 10 minutes.
4. after 10 minutes, sugar syrup is absorbed completely by boondi.
5. add 2 tbsp cashew and 2 tbsp pistachios. mix well.
6. you can see the the mixture is dried and all the sugar syrup has absorbed.
   

   
7. prepare the ladoo taking a small amount of boondi. add milk if required, to make moist laddu.
8. finally, motichoor laddo is ready to be served or refrigerate for a week.