Tirupati Laddu is a sacred sweet offered to the deity at the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. This famous prasad holds a special place in the hearts of devotees across India as an offering to God.
With the holidays approaching, it’s the perfect time to have this divine recipe on hand, not only for offerings, but also to share and enjoy with family and friends. This sacred sweet will undoubtedly bring sweetness and joy to your celebrations.
Recipe
Ingredients
- Chickpea flour 400g
- Ghee 1 liter
- sugar 350 g
- almond 50g
- Cashew 100g
- rock sugar 20g
- cardamom 10g
- milk 300ml
- rice flour 100g
- sugar 100g (for mixing)
Instructions
- In a bowl, add 100 g of sugar together with the milk and mix well until the sugar dissolves.
- After the sugar has dissolved, add the rice flour and mix well without any lumps.
- Next, add the chickpea flour little by little and mix without lumps.
- If necessary, add milk. Prepare a thick and fluid dough. The dough is ready.
- Heat ghee in a kadai using iron kadai. Preheat ghee for frying bondi
- Use a boondhi spoon and pour the batter over it. Just add oil to get the boondhi.
- Fry well till it turns golden brown. As we add milk and sugar to the batter, it gets a nice brown colour. Once done, strain the excess oil and remove the boondhi. Frying in ghee also gives a nice colour, flavour and aroma.
- In the same hot ghee, fry the cashews and almonds.
- Fry the raisins, do not burn them.
- Grind the boondhi in a mixing jar coarsely to get the texture of tirupathi ladoo.
- You can also grind half of the boondhi and mix it in. Transfer it to a plate.
- Let’s prepare the syrup. Add 250-300 g of sugar to a saucepan.
- Add water until the sugar just slightly submerges the water.
- Add cardamom and mix well. Stir well and boil till it has a single thread consistency. Get everything ready to mix and prepare laddu
- Now add the sugar syrup to the prepared boondi, add all the other ingredients now dry nuts, raisins, sweet sugar.
- Add a little ghee and mix well. Let it sit for a minute or two.
- Try to make the ladoo while it is still warm. Press it well to form a round shape. You can make it in any size and shape you like.
- Tirupathi ladoo will be ready after cooling, store it in an airtight box.
- Try this recipe and enjoy it with your family and friends.
(Recipe credit: cookingmypassion.com)
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