Make Your Own Tirupati Laddu At Home With This Simple Recipe

Tirupati Laddu is a sacred sweet offered to the deity at the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. This famous prasad holds a special place in the hearts of devotees across India as an offering to God.

With the festive season approaching, it's a perfect time to keep this divine recipe handy, not only for offerings but also to share and enjoy with family and friends. This sacred treat is sure to bring sweetness and joy to your celebrations.

Recipe

Ingredients 

• Gram flour 400g
• Ghee 1 litre
• sugar 350 g
• almond 50g
• Cashew 100g
• rock sugar 20g
• cardamom 10g
• milk 300ml
• rice flour 100g
• sugar 100g (to mix)

Instructions 

• In a mixing bowl add sugar 100 g along with milk and mix well till sugar dissolves.
• After sugar dissolves add rice flour and mix well without any lumps.
• Next, add gram flour little by little and mix without lumps.
• Add milk if needed, Make a thick flowing consistency batter. The batter is ready.
• Heat ghee in a kadai using iron kadai. Preheat ghee to fry boondi
• Use a Boondhi ladle and pour the batter on it. Just tap in oil to get Boondhi.
• Fry well till brown. As we added milk and sugar in the batter it got a nice brown color. Once done strain the excess oil and remove Boondhi. Frying in ghee also gives a nice colour, taste and flavour.
• In the same hot ghee fry cashews and almonds.
• Fry raisins do not burn them.
• Grind Boondhi in a mixie jar coarsely to get the texture of Tirupathi Laddu.
• You can also grind half of the Boondhi and mix. Transfer to a plate.
• Let us make sugar syrup. Add 250-300 g sugar in a pan.
• Add water till sugar is immersed only a little water.
• Add cardamom and mix well. Stir well and boil till single-string consistency. Keep everything ready to mix and prepare Laddu.
• Now add the sugar syrup to the prepared Boondhi, Add all other ingredients dry nuts, raisins, sugar candy
• Add a little ghee and mix thoroughly. Leave it for a minute or 2
• Try to make Laddu when it's still hot. Press well to make a round shape. You can make it in the desired shape and size.
• Tirupathi Laddu is ready after it cools down store it in a tight box.
• Please try this recipe and enjoy it with your family and friends.

(Recipe credit: cookingmypassion.com)