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    Besan ladoo recipe

    Updated on October 18, 2022 by Raks Anand 39 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    Besan ladoo is one of the popular sweets made widely in India for festivals like Ganesh Chaturthi, Diwali. With few simple ingredients, it makes a perfect treat for celebrations.

    besan ladoo recipe
    Besan ladoo

    Ladoos are easy to prepare even for beginners. Only trick is roasting and ghee quantity. For this reason, it is so versatile that we can make it so many varieties.

    Check out my ladoo recipes and how to make ghee at home post.

    Jump to:
    • Trial & Errors
    • My notes
    • Ingredient
    • Recipe card
    • Stepwise images

    Trial & Errors

    I have made 3 times before this, first time for my in laws. It became a funny incident when I made that and passed it to my BIL when he visited here to Singapore.

    My in laws have not tasted this besan laddu before. And I made and arranged in a box with a garnish too like I have did in my Atta ladoo recipe.

    It looked so beautiful - that’s when I arranged. When I made these, I roasted besan along with ghee fully. When I shaped those ladoos, it looked shiny, yet holding it's shape.

    But by the time my Bro-in-law reached Chennai, they found all the ladoos in the shape of a peda.

    And being un familiar to the mithai, they thought it as some local Singaporean sweet we get here and I had bought and passed it to them.

    My other BIL even commented it was like maavilakku 😆

    So here are some besan ladoo mistakes while making them:

    • Adding more ghee, it won't hold it's shape and becomes shiny.
    • While roasting, if under roasted the taste will not be good.
    • At the same time, besan gets brown fast towards the end. If you do not stir properly or roast in high flame, it will burns easily.

    My notes

    When I made earlier, I thought ghee is more and the next time also when I tried it happed the same way.

    So this time, I followed our method of adding ghee to the flour while mixing and not while roasting.

    It worked too. This way, we can control the amount of ghee we adding.
    But keep this in mind that all North Indian mithais are about ghee mainly and the ghee taste should be there.

    So you cannot make it so dry like rava ladoo. I love the shiny version too, but always loved the way Haldiram’s laddu looks. So I wanted to make it look like that.

    Coarse besan ensures to give this look while the fine ground besan easily becomes shiny as it takes lesser ghee.

    Besan ladoo
    Besan ladoo

    Ingredient

    Which besan type to use for making ladoo?

    Besan means gram flour (bengal gram flour). Actually speaking Chickpea flour available world wide is different from besan.

    How? Chickpea flour is ground whole chickpeas with skin. Besan/ gram flour is made from the 'dal'. So texture wise there will be difference as well as the nutritional value.

    You can technically use both. Other than this there is fine ground besan and coarse ground laddu besan itself.

    The coarse ground besan (Ladoo besan) is perfect for besan ladoo as well as the boondi ladoo and motichoor ladoo.

    But still it is not wrong to use fine ground besan. So come let's see hot to make perfect besan ladoo that holds it's shape!

    Recipe card

    Besan ladoo
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    Besan Ladoo Recipe

    Besan ladoo is one of the popular sweets made widely in India for festivals. With few simple ingredients, it makes a perfect treat for celebrations.
    Course Sweets
    Cuisine Indian
    Prep Time 20 minutes minutes
    Cook Time 20 minutes minutes
    Servings 10 Ladoo
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • Β½ cup Besan Chickpea flour
    • Β½ cup Powdered sugar
    • ΒΌ cup minus 1 tablespoon Ghee
    • 2 Cardamom
    • Nuts optional - For Garnish
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    Instructions

    Roasting besan

    • Roast besan well in medium flame with constant stirring until it turns deep golden brown in colour.
    • Take care not to burn the flour, as well as make sure roasted well.
    • Cool down and sieve it well.

    Prepare ladoo

    • Powder sugar with cardamom and add to the roast flour in a mixing bowl.
    • Melt ghee and add the hot ghee to it.
    • Mix well with a spatula and when it is warm enough to handle, make ladoos.
    • Shape tightly when it is still warm.

    Video

    Notes

    • At one stage the flour starts browning at the bottom of the pan, so keep stirring carefully without letting it burn.
    • If not roasted properly, then the raw smell of besan and taste of besan will not be pleasant.
    • You can add upto ΒΌ cup ghee for this recipe to get SHINY ladoos. I didn't wanted it to look shiny, so I had hold 1 tablespoon ghee.
    • You can also add the ghee to the flour while frying and just add the powdered sugar to it and make ladoos.
    • Ghee is the only flavor that brings taste to the ladoos, so never reduce it than mentioned.
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    Stepwise images

    Roasting besan

    1. Roast besan well in medium flame with constant stirring until it turns deep golden brown in color. Take care not to burn the flour, as well as make sure roasted well. Cool down and sieve it well.
    roasting

    2. Powder sugar with cardamom and add to the roast flour in a mixing bowl. Melt ghee and add the hot ghee to it.

    powder sugar

    Shaping ladoo

    3. Mix well with a spatula and when it is warm enough to handle, make ladoos.

    shape

    It is perfect mithai to make in bulk and to gift for this Diwali. Keep checking for more traditional and exciting recipes here!

    besan-laddu
    Dry besan ladoo

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      Malai ladoo recipe, milk powder malai ladoo

    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Nivedhanams Sowmya

      October 15, 2013 at 7:40 am

      That is beautiful.. Simple and delicious laddu looks so picture perfect and drool worthy!!!

      Reply
    2. Shama Nagarajan

      October 15, 2013 at 7:50 am

      quick simple yummy ladoo

      Reply
    3. Sowmya Madhavan

      October 15, 2013 at 7:56 am

      Looks yumm.. I have learnt it in a different way by making besan pooris from a maharashtrian friend...have it in my blog..

      Reply
    4. Rumana Ambrin

      October 15, 2013 at 8:00 am

      so tasty...

      Reply
    5. Shweet Spicess

      October 15, 2013 at 8:50 am

      I remember I burnt the mixture when I was trying to make besan laddos as experiment, The recipe called for adding powdered sugar into the pan, and I added sugar grains which burnt up the whole mixture, More than 10yrs now lolz, My house filled with aroma then started giving all burnt smell around πŸ˜›

      Reply
    6. Feng Shui

      October 15, 2013 at 10:18 am

      THIS SURE IS AWESOME

      Reply
    7. Deepa Narayanan

      October 15, 2013 at 10:39 am

      i have tried this besan ladoo befr 3 months but i couldn get the shape of ladoo..after reading your recipe ingredients i understood that i ve added too much of ghee.. πŸ™‚

      Reply
    8. Priti S

      October 15, 2013 at 11:13 am

      One of fav I make this for other ppl too...and do same way add ghee later ...nice pics

      Reply
    9. prathibha Garre

      October 15, 2013 at 12:40 pm

      Ladoo looks delicious....love the flavour of it

      Reply
    10. AparnaRajeshkumar

      October 15, 2013 at 1:37 pm

      thats a lovely ladoo ! looking great !

      Reply
    11. Veena Theagarajan

      October 15, 2013 at 2:18 pm

      beautiful ladoo.. Nice clicks

      Reply
    12. Sayantani

      October 15, 2013 at 6:43 pm

      love besan laddus and you made them so perfectly.

      Reply
    13. Priya Suresh

      October 15, 2013 at 8:07 pm

      Omg, am laughing after the reading the funny incident about those laddoo pedas..lolz..

      Cute looks beauties..

      Reply
    14. CHITRA

      October 16, 2013 at 2:33 am

      I tried this very long back in a different method..Must try again to update πŸ™‚ pretty pics as usual !

      Reply
    15. Shabitha Karthikeyan

      October 16, 2013 at 5:30 am

      Gorgeous Ladoo's !! Nicely done !!

      Reply
    16. Janani

      October 16, 2013 at 6:44 pm

      very nice raks the ball looks perfect will def try it out.

      Reply
    17. Sona S

      October 17, 2013 at 1:56 am

      Laddu has come out perfect and delicious.

      Reply
    18. Dessy

      November 01, 2013 at 2:18 am

      way too sweet for me,reduced the sugar and it was perfect...

      Reply
    19. Deepa

      November 02, 2013 at 7:51 am

      Came out very well! Thx raks!!

      Reply
    20. Varada Menon

      November 03, 2013 at 2:56 am

      Superb recipe. I followed your steps and my ladoos were of perfect taste and texture. Thanks raks. Received lots of praises. Thanks again

      Reply
    21. SHARMILEE J

      November 07, 2013 at 1:04 am

      Gorgeous ladoos...!

      Reply
    22. Jayashree Iyer

      November 08, 2013 at 2:47 am

      Hi,
      I tried my culinary skills for the first time with sweets and they came out very well..Lots of compliments received as well..quite simple and easy to make...kudos

      Reply
    23. Mrs Huma Sajid

      November 28, 2013 at 12:08 am

      Looks scrumptious and easy to make too...thanks to share with us!!!

      Reply
    24. Mrs Huma Sajid

      November 28, 2013 at 3:06 am

      This comment has been removed by the author.

      Reply
    25. Kitchen Rhythms

      January 17, 2014 at 10:43 am

      Can I try this with butter instead of ghee?

      Reply
    26. Raks anand

      January 17, 2014 at 10:44 am

      Ghee works the best.

      Reply
    27. Parveen Kumar

      February 22, 2014 at 7:30 am

      You can't use butter instead of ghee in cooking gram flour dish ladoo because it make less smoothy and tastey

      Reply
    28. Parveen Kumar

      February 22, 2014 at 7:30 am

      When i try to make gram flour dish ladoo i ever fail to change in ladoo shape.

      Reply
    29. SARATHA RAVI

      October 05, 2014 at 12:27 am

      Can I use readymade powdered sugar? Instead of grinding?

      Reply
    30. Jyothsna

      March 13, 2015 at 5:57 am

      Tried this and it turned out perfect. But I was wondering what would happen if I use a little milk and reduce the ghee. I know the shelf life will come down drastically. But any other difference?

      Reply
    31. Raks anand

      March 13, 2015 at 7:03 am

      I have tried this with rava ladoo, but not sure how milk will make the texture of besan. Wont it become sticky at places where milk is mixed?

      Reply
    32. Athiya Mahboob

      October 19, 2015 at 2:55 pm

      Yummieee laddus.. Thank you for the simple recipe... But a little on the sweeter side door me, should reduce the sugar next time.

      Reply
    33. Leni

      November 09, 2015 at 2:15 pm

      I am done with the laddoos, they look yummy. Now waiting for tomorrow to taste them.

      Reply
    34. HP

      November 16, 2015 at 12:43 am

      Came out perfect! Thanks

      Reply
    35. Sunandha Ramasamy

      May 19, 2016 at 1:03 pm

      Hello Raks,
      I think the ghee quantity mentioned is very high... my ladoos became very slimy with the given ghee measurement....

      Reply
    36. Raks anand

      May 19, 2016 at 1:05 pm

      I always measure and give the recipe as accurate as possible, and you can see my ladoos on dry side. May be check my cup measurements page for the measures I used.

      Reply
    37. Savitha Hemanth

      October 24, 2016 at 11:07 am

      Is it okay if we dry roast besan to the required aroma and color to make besan ladoo and prepare ladoos the next day.

      Reply
    38. Archana

      May 11, 2020 at 6:07 am

      I went for the shiny laddu look. Tbh I love ghee flavor. But my laddus also became peda. Very delicious pedas nonetheless. Thanks.

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        May 11, 2020 at 9:07 pm

        Reply

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