Boondi Ladoo

Ingredients:
For making boondhi
Besan flour/ Gram flour - 2cups Yellow food color - a pinch
Baking soda - a pinch
Water - 1 cup (add water accordingly)
Oil for frying

For sugar syrup
Sugar - 2 and half cups
Water - 1 cup
Cardamom powder -1 and half tsp
Cloves - 2  crushed  (optional)

Garnishing
Raisin and Cashew - few
Ghee- 1tbs

Preparation:

Take gram flour in a sifter and sieve it, add  water slowly and make it into a smooth batter. Now add in some baking soda and food color and mix well. The batter should not be watery. Heat oil in a pan/kadai, when oil becomes hot, take the boondi laddle hold it over oil and pour over the boondi laddle and spread it out with a spoon.  The boondis will fall drop by drop. Fry the boondi's drain them. Put it in a bowl  and keep aside. 

Heat ghee in a small pan, add cashews and raisin separately and keep aside.
 

Take sugar and water in a pan, mix well. Bring it to  boil till it attains a single string stage.  At this point, take it off the heat and add in cardamom powder, clove powder. Now add the syrup into the boondi bowl, take a laddle and mash the boondhi's well. Add the fried cashew and raisin and mix well.  

Take a small portion of this mix and shape it into a tight ladoo. Repeat this  process for the entire mix. Allow it to set until it becomes firm. 

Enjoy boondhi ladoo on Diwali .......