BOONDI LADDOO

Ingredients:
Sugar - 1 and 1/2 cups
water- 1 and 1/2 cups
Gram flour- approx 2 cups
rice flour- 2 tsps
Orange food color- a pinch
warm milk- 1 tsp
saffron - 2 pinch
cardomom- 7-8 nos
cloves- 3 nos
Nutmeg- 1/8 th the ball
Edible camphor/ pacha karpooram- 3 pinches
Cashews & Raisins - to taste

How to make laddu:
Sieve the gram flour .
Mix the saffron in the warm milk.
Boil the sugar and water in a non stick pan. Bring it to 1 string consistency.
Add food color and the saffron.
Heat good amount oil in a kadai.
Mix the gram flour and rice flour with water without any crumbles. The consistency should be like that of a bajji mix. When the oil is real hot,
pour the mix via a laddu laddle and take it when it is cooked 3/4th. Damp out the extra oil with a paper towel and soak it in the sugar syrup.
Continue this without break until all the syrup is absorped well. Note: It is important that the mix to be in correct consistency. If it is watery,
it will get burnt , else if it is too thick , the boondis will not have a round shape.
Let the boondis get soaked for 1-2 hours.
Powder cardomom, nutmeg, cloves and camphor in a coffee grinder.
Now add this to the boondis and run them in a food processor/ wet grinder coarsely for few seconds.
Roast the raisins and cashews in ghee and add to boondi mix.
Make balls of uniform size and enjoy eating