{"id":3452,"date":"2013-04-12T16:44:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T11:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2015-06-01T17:03:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T11:33:39","slug":"besan-ke-ladoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/besan-ke-ladoo","title":{"rendered":"Besan Ke Ladoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3480\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/uncategorized\/besan-ke-ladoo\/attachment\/besan-ke-ladoo\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3480\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-my-custom-thumb wp-image-3480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/besan-ke-ladoo-665x445.jpg\" alt=\"Besan Ke Ladoo\" width=\"665\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once you taste them, it is tough to keep them away.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Punjabi way of making besan ke ladoo is fairly simple and requires only a few ingredients. It is just the perfection required in mixing the besan with the ghee over a fire which cannot be compromised upon.<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients you need: Pistachios, almonds, green cardamom, green cardamom powder, desi ghee and powdered sugar. Adding 20 other things would simply not add to this dish&#8217;s flavor and would rather destroy the chemistry between besan and ghee.<\/p>\n<p>Making besan ke ladoo should be kept as simple as possible, no elaborate cooking methods need to be adopted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Place a wok\/ kadhai on a burner and add ghee to it.<\/li>\n<li>Bring ghee to a melting point and add a few pods of green cardamom to it. Allow the pods to cook for a bit and then pull them out.<\/li>\n<li>Add green cardamom powder to the ghee<\/li>\n<li>Add besan to the wokand and roast it till it turns light brown. Don&#8217;t start eating, you are not done yet. That aroma would be inviting enough, but you have some more time to go.<\/li>\n<li>Keep a few almonds whole and crush the remaining. Do the same with the pistachios.\u00a0 Mix the crushed pistachios and almonds together.<\/li>\n<li>Remove wok\/ kadhai from the burner and add crushed almonds and pistachios to the besan and mix them really well. Allow the mixture to cool for 15-20 minutes and add powdered sugar to it.<\/li>\n<li>Lightly roast the whole almonds and pistachios.<\/li>\n<li>Make ladoos of this mixture and once done, press the roasted almonds and pistachios to the exterior of ladoos for the impact and &#8220;look good\u201d factor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjabi way of making besan ke ladoo is fairly simple and requires only a few ingredients. It is just the perfection required in mixing the besan with the ghee over a fire which cannot be compromised upon. Ingredients you need: Pistachios, almonds, green cardamom, green cardamom powder, desi ghee and powdered sugar. Adding 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3512,3513,62,3482,3487,3529],"tags":[546],"class_list":{"0":"post-3452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-desserts-and-sweets","8":"category-festival-and-celebration-cuisines","9":"category-food","10":"category-vegetarian","11":"category-north-indian","12":"category-kids-special","13":"tag-indian-sweets"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45917,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/45917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}