Rava Laddu / Rava Ladoo

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Wanted to start with a sweet recipe, Rava Laddu. Rava Laddu is a simple and quick Indian sweet. And its one of the easiest neivedyam too. Yes, You can make this rava laddu within 15 minutes and offer to God as Prasadham. I am not much fond of this sweet but my kids n V love this a lot. This is my friend's recipe and I made this for the first time and it came out really good n tasted so delicious. Now off to the recipe...

Ingredients

1. Rava/Sooji    1 cup
2. Sugar   3/4 cup 
3. Cashew nuts    1small fistful (roughly chopped)
4. Raisins    1-2 tbsp
5. Ghee/Clarified butter    4 tbsp
6. Hot milk     4-5 tbsp
7. Cardamom powder     a generous pinch

Method

• First heat 1tbsp ghee in a pan, and roast cashew nuts till golden brown and keep aside.
• And add raisins and fry till it plump up and keep aside.

• To the same pan, add another tbsp ghee and add rava and roast the rava in medium heat to light golden brown n till aroma comes.
• After that add sugar and stir well for a minute and turn off the stove.
• Then allow this to cool for a while and then blend it in a blender for few seconds or if u want blend it finely.

• Now transfer the rava-sugar mixture to a wide plate/bowl then add cardamom powder, ghee roasted cashew nuts n raisins.
• Mix well and add another 2tbsp hot ghee n mix well and add milk little by little and take about 2tbsp of mixture n start shaping it to round balls. 

• Add hot milk or hot ghee while shaping them to laddus. 
• Do repeat the same for all the mixture, with the above measurement u will get around 15 medium sized Rava laddu.
• Leave the Laddu for 20-30 minutes to hold the shape and after that ready to relish or offer God!

Notes:
Adding milk makes the laddu soft n delicious(if u don't like ghee then use only milk to shape them but use ghee to roast rava n nuts for nice flavor) but at the same time it reduces its shelf life. It remains good only for 3-4 days @ room temperature.
Use hot ghee alone to shape the laddu for 1 cup u will need about 1/4 cup ghee. This way you can store the rava laddu for a month, if handled n prepared properly.
Ghee Roasted shredded coconuts can also be added to the rava-sugar mixture.
I did not blend the rava finely since i like bit crispy.

Sending the recipe to Jagruti's Celebrate ~ Month of Shravan Event happening @ Spicy Treats.