Ingredients

• ½ cup pottu kadalai (dahlia)
• ½ cup white sugar
• ½ teaspoon cardamom powder
• ¼ cup broken cashew nuts + raisins
• 1  tablespoon + ½ teaspoon ghee (clarified butter)
• 1 tablespoon boiling water

Method

• Dry roast dahlia for a minute or so
• Grind dahlia and sugar into a coarse powder
• In a skillet add ½ teaspoon ghee and fry cashew nuts and raisins for a minute or two
• Mix cardamom powder, fried nuts and raisins with ground dahlia
• Melt 1 tablespoon ghee and add to the dahlia mixture and mix well
• Add 1 tablespoon hot water to the above mixture and mix well
• Slightly cool a bit and make them into balls – laddu
• Do not leave too long before making the laddu, since the mixture will become dry and won’t be able to make into balls