DISH RESEARCH · Dessert

Ladoo

This source-specific Ladoo account selects Dassana Amit’s Besan Ladoo: dry-roasted gram flour is cooked further in ghee, mixed with its own powdered sugar, green cardamom, golden raisins and cashews, cooled and shaped into balls with selected cashew garnish.

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This Ladoo account selects Dassana Amit’s Besan Ladoo, one member of the wider ladoo family she lists. Her family preparation combines gram flour, ghee and powdered sugar with green cardamom, golden raisins and cashews.

The besan is dry-roasted with continuous stirring before ghee is added. Roasting continues until the source’s nutty fragrance develops and the mixture begins releasing ghee.

Off the heat, the author’s powdered sugar is mixed thoroughly into the same roasted mixture. Green cardamom powder, chopped golden raisins and finely chopped cashews are added next.

The mixture cools before being shaped into balls. The source offers refrigeration if it is too soft to shape, or a little more of the same ghee if it is dry and crumbly.

The selected cashew garnish finishes the balls, which are offered at room temperature. The author describes a melt-in-the-mouth sweet and recalls learning this roasting method from her mother-in-law for festive cooking.

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Dish type: Dessert
Preparation: Read the preparation
Seven observations: complete six103–108 plus separate selected cashew garnish65/130. Ladoo broad family29–34 and selected Besan member16/19 explicitly distinct, not universal formula. Besan103 split husked black chickpea24, dry roast111 before SAME ghee104114/115, nutty ghee-release116117 then remove120. Selected own powdered raw sugar78/138 under broad Sugar105 False plant unreported, not all confectioners/boora alternatives. Green powder106 refined57, golden raisins107/cashews108124 mixed, cool125/shape127. Conditional extra SAME ghee140 for dry crumbly dough, no new whole batch, conditional refrigeration128 only if difficult shaping. Selected separate cashew garnish65 rather all nuts130. Whole ROOM67 direct service, not shaping125/storage132 only. Country[] North Indian101 cuisine only; ingredient markets54 not food nation. Other Ladoo family29–34, saffron141 and chai69 unselected, no full supplier/scoped allergen/human certainty.
Serving presentation: at room temperature in Dassana’s Besan Ladoo serving recommendation

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Ingredients in Ladoo

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Split Pea Flourbase
Wheat flourbinder
Sugarsweetener
Gheecooking medium
Cardamomseasoning

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Origins & food traditions

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Countries

Trinidad and Tobago

Cuisines & regions

Indo-Trinidadian Cuisine

Associations in the cited sources

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Cooking traditions: North Indian / Dassana Besan Ladoo

Sources & references

Besan Ladoo Recipe (Besan ke Laddu)