Basen Ladoo
September 11th, 2008 filed under Desserts
Besan ladoos are rich, sweet dessert-snack made from gently roasted gram flour (besan). Ladoos can be served any time of the day. Traditionally in Indian households ladoos and burfis are served as cookies and chocolate.
Recipe will make approximately 16 ladoos.
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups gram flour (basen)
- 2 tablespoons semolina flour (fine sooji)
- 1/2 cup unsalted melted butter (ghee)
- 3/4 cups sugar
- 4 tablespoons sliced almonds (badam)
- 1/4 teaspoons coarsely grounded cardamom seeds (ilaichi)
For Garnish:
- 1 tablespoon melted butter or ghee
- 1 tablespoons sliced pistachios (pista)
Method
- Put the basen (gram flour), sooji, and melted butter in a large frying pan and mix.
- Turn the stove on to medium heat and begin to roast the basen mixture until basen becomes light golden brown in color. Stir the mixture continuously with a spatula to prevent burning. Cooking on high heat will not allow the mixture to fully cook.
- When the color has changed you will also start to smell the sweetness of roasted basen. This should take about 7 to 10 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the heat and let the basen cool to a warm temperature. don’t let it become to room temperature.
- While the mixture is warm add and mix cardamom seeds, almonds, and sugar.
- To make the ladoos, take about 2 tablespoons of warm basen mixture into your palm. Gently press the mixture between your palms to form a smooth, round ball. The ladoos are usually about the size of a ping-pong ball, but you can adjust the as you prefer.
- When you have finished making all of the ladoos, take one ladoo at a time and dip the ladoo a quarter inch into melted butter or ghee. Then lightly touch the part of the ladoo with the butter into the sliced pistachios just enough so some pistachios stick to the ladoo.
- Put ladoos back on the plate with the pistachio side facing the top.
- Leave the ladoos on a plate to cool to room temperature before putting into a covered container. The ladoos can be stored in an airtight container for 2 to 3 weeks.
Hi Manjula aunti
I made laddoos but they were really dry – I couldn’t make ladoos.
Is half cup ghee melted quantity or is it melted after measuring solidified butter/ghee. Please clarify what other reason could be for dry ladoos.
I used half cup melted butter, 1.5 cup besan and 2 tbsp sooji
Hi Manjula Aunty,
I made this laddoo today n going to give surprise to my hubby. This is my first sweet I made at home. It came out well. Everything became easy for me just becoz of ur clear explanation in the recipe.
, so that it will be helpful for people like me who started to cook just after marriage!! 
I really like ur way of explaining the recipes with exact proportions of indegrents used. Ur videos make me feel its easy to cook and also encourages me to try out new dishes!!
Hope we will get much more recipes, especially easy ones
Thank you again,
Deepthi
Dear madam,
I am so happy to watch most of your recipes….and thank u so much for sharing all these recipes to us…
Keep on posting more…
warm regards,
Namrata
hi aunty,
u recipes are superb!!! n the way u present it.. just perfect..
congrats n keep going!!! waiting to watch more wonderful recipes..
haifa.
thanx so much madam for your great recipes.
) ) and presented them to our husbands the next day since they had to work on new years eve. our husbands were so happy so my husband grabbed a few and took them to his work place. after his boss tasted them he called me up and said, they tasted so good, he didn’t believe we made them ourselves, he thought we had bought them somewhere 
) i will go and make some more to take to the temple on the weekend.
my friend and i made these lovely ladoos on new years eve (we also made gajar ka halwa, badam burfi, paneer burfi and mathris on the same day
bless you and have a great year ahead!
Dear Manjula,
I’ve made this dessert, not only this but many others of your recipes. I’m very happy because I’ve learned a lot from you.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Sylvia from Hungary
Mam, your recipes are amazing…Bean laddu is mouth watering….
I made the ladoo and it came out really well.
Thanks for your clear directions given in the recipe.
Hello Mrs. Manjula,
Thank you for the Besan Ladoo video. Your method was vey easy to follow and it is a fool-proof recipe which you presented in a step by step manner. The ultimate result is a plateful of tasty ladoos even our local indian store guy would be envious off! You made my Diwali special!! wish I could upload my ladoos picture..
Raveena
Hi Manjula,
I made Besan ka laddoos as per the video and it tasted really good !!
I and my kids really loved it !
Thanks for the video and keep going !!!!
Regards,
Beena Jose