Name: Besan ladoo recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 16 ladoo
Ingredients: 2 cups besan (gram flour/ chickpea flour/ kadalai mavu); 1/2 cup ghee (add 2 more tablespoons if required); 3 tablespoons nuts (almonds, pistachios) (chopped); 1 1/4 cup sugar (powdered); 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder

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Last updated on May 18th, 2019

Besan Ladoo recipe is a popular and favorite sweet for Diwali among Indians. Madewith fragrant roasted besan or chickpea flour and desi ghee, these besan laddu are a top favorite among toddlers and kids too. Wanna know how to make best besan ladoo at home, here is the easy recipe for you all!

Ladoos are popular Indian mithai or sweet. No Indian festival like Diwali, holi, ganesh chaturti or janmashtami is complete without laddus. There are many varieties of ladoo recipes like coconut ladoo, khoya coconut ladoo, pista ladoo, rava ladoo you can prepare for diwali.

Among all the ladoos this besan ladoo is the most popular one. At home we love this ladoo and I often make as it is very easy to make.

You just need very few simple ingredients to make this besan laddu.

Two Ways For Making Besan Ladoo Recipe

In first method the besan is dry roasted first. Ghee is added to the roasted besan and further sauteed. This method is for easy besan ladoo.
In second way of making besan ladu, the besan or gram flour is roasted in ghee. I always follow this method as the ladoo are shiny and more flavorful here. The taste and texture of besan ladoo is much better than the first method. Also this recipe works well with both coarse or smooth besan.

This is my tried and tested recipe for best besan ladoo. Initially I used to refer sanjeev kapoor’s besan laddu recipe and make. Over the period I have altered the recipe. This is one of the fool proof recipe to try at home

How To Make Besan Ladoo At Home Easily?

To make besan ladoo at home we need just gram flour or besan, sugar, ghee. Along with that we also add cardamom powder for flavor and some nuts as garnish.

You begin by roasting the gram flour until golden and nutty. Do refer tips for roasting gram flour perfectly. Roast the gram flour in ghee until fragrant and golden. Add cardamom powder and nuts.

In the meantime powder the sugar and keep it ready. You can also use the powdered sugar known as bhoorah readily available.

Once the gram flour is roasted remove from flame and add powdered sugar. Mix well and make ladoos. If the mixture does not bind add some ghee and make ladoos.

Store the besan ladoo in airtight containers. Keeps well for a week.

A pack of besan laddu is a wonderful edible gift for festivals like diwali, new year. These homemade ladoos are much better than store bought besan ladoo packs.

Some Tips For Making Best Besan Ladoo At Home.

Use finest quality desi ghee for making these ladoos. I always prefer fresh homemade ghee for Indian sweets.

You can use fine or coarse chickpea flour in this recipe. if you use coarse flour there will be a delicious crunch in your ladoos. However make sure to use fresh and very good quality besan for ladoo.

An important step that will make or break the besan ladoos is roasting the chick pea flour in ghee. Roast the besan in low flame for good 15 minutes. This has to be done only in low flame.

You can add 1/2 cashew along with besan while roasting. Once the cashew turns dark golden it means besan is roasted. This tip is for beginners. Just make sure the besan is dark golden and emits a nutty aroma to check if it is done.

If the chick pea flour is not roasted properly your ladoos will leave a raw after taste. So roast the flour very well.

The ghee should not be smoking hot for roasting the gram flour.

Next do not add all the ghee at a stretch. Start with 1/2 cup and add more only if required while making ladoos. Keep the melted warm ghee at ready though.

Add sugar only after removing the besan from flame. Use superfine powdered sugar or bhoorah in this recipe. Do not use granulated sugar.

To make shiny and smooth ladoos like seen here add 2 more tablespoons of warm ghee while shaping them. Also grease your palm generously with ghee 🙂

How To Make Besan Ladoo Recipe Step by Step

Prep Work For Msking Besan Ladoo

1. heat 2 tablespoons ghee in a pan and fry the crushed nuts well. Remove the fried nuts along with ghee and set aside.

2. In the same pan add 1/2 cup ghee and heat it. Once it is hot but not smoking, add the gram flour and start roasting. maintain low flame through the entire process.

Keep stirring continuously. The flour has to completely absorb the ghee, turn golden with a nutty aroma.

3. Once the besan is roasted, add crushed saffron,nuts along with ghee, cardamom powder and mix very well.

Making Besan Laddu

4. remove from flame, add powdered sugar and mix well without any lumps. Keep mixing till all the sugar is absorbed and the mixture solidifies a bit. At the stage you will find the besan ladoo mixture to be loose. The mixture will solidify on cooling. Once the mixture is warm to handle make ladoos of desired size. You can refrigerate the mixture for 10 minutes if the mixture is still loose after cooling for sometime.