Who doesn't love Motichoor ke laddoo? We love them and some of us could easily gobble up a few, ain't it? Now if we know how to make them at home, we would love to have homemade Motichoor ke laddoos, right?

Ingredients:

• Besan/Chickpea flour 200 gm or 1 ¾ cup(coarse)
• Semolina flour/Sooji 50 gm or ¼ cup (fine)
• Orange Food color 1 pinch
• Ghee or refined oil 750 gm
• Sugar 2 cups or 400 gm
• Water 1 cup (for sugar syrup)
• Cardamom powder 1 Tsp
• melon seeds 2 Tbsp (optional)

For Garnishing:

Pistachio pieces 1 Tbsp

Directions:

• Take gram flour in a mixing bowl and add sooji to it. Add water little by little and make a flowing consistency batter by mixing with a wooden spatula. The batter should be of a runny consistency.
•  Keep aside the batter for 15-20 min.
•  For sugar syrup add 2 cups of sugar and 1 cup water in a pan and let it melt on low flame and bring the sugar syrup to a boil. Keep aside.
• Pour ghee or refined oil in a wok and heat it.
• Add food color to the batter and check the consistency again now.
• Once the oil is hot, hold the boondi ladle on top of the wok and pour some batter in the ladle.
• Place your other hand underneath the handle and tap the ladle gently on to your hand until all the batter in the ladle falls into the wok as small boondi/beads.
• Boondi is to be fried on high flame for a crispy texture. Fry boondi for less than 1 min and quickly remove into a strainer. Do not wait till boondi changes color as it will get burnt quickly.
• Repeat this process until all the batter is used up and boondi is made.
• Boondi should be crunchy and once it is made spread it out on a flat tray and keep aside.
• Dry roast melon seeds and keep aside. (optional)
• Heat the sugar syrup and add less than a pinch of orange/yellow color to it. Can skip if food colors are not preferred.
• Add cardamom powder to the sugar syrup.
• Turn off the stove and add boondi to the sugar syrup, mix it well.
• Turn on the stove and cook until Sugar Syrup disappears from the bottom of the pan. It will take about 2-3 min.
• Add melon seeds and mix well.
• Cover the pan with a lid and keep it covered for 15-20 min.
• Boondi will have absorbed all the sugar syrup by now. Spread it out in a flat tray and let it cool a little bit.
• Now boondi is ready to make laddoos.
• Suggestion: If your boondi feels little hard before making into small laddoos, then you can add 1 tablespoon of hot water to make it soft.
• Apply ghee in your hands and make the laddoos with your hand.
• Take boondi into your hands and gently press the boondi and roll into small, lemon sized laddoos. Garnish with pistachios on top.
• Approx. 28 lemon size laddoos can be made from this quantity.

It's delicious, Enjoy!