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
