Rava laddu recipe

INGREDIENTS:

1. Rava - 1 cup
2. Sugar - 1 cup
3. Cashew - 15
4. Raisins - 15
5. Cardamom powder - 1/4 teaspoon (tsp.)
6. Ghee - as needed i.e. 1/2 cup

PREPARATION:

1. Roast the rava in low heat by melting 2 teaspoon (tsp.) of ghee, until you smell nice aroma of the roasted rava.
2. Grind the roasted rava into a coarse powder.
3. Grind the sugar into a fine powder.
4. Melt little ghee and roast the cashews (break it into small pieces), raisins until the cashew turns color and raisin plumps.
5. In a bowl or flat pan add roasted rava, sugar, roasted cashew and raisins, cardamom powder.
6. Heat ghee well and add little by little to the mixture in the bowl and make balls (laddu) while the ghee is hot (when your hands can bear the heat). NOTE: Do not pour all the ghee to the mixture

NOTES:

1. If the ghee has become cold, instead of re-heating, keep it over a bowl of boiling water.