Rava ladoo, rava urundai is an very easy to prepare sweet for Diwali. Full video, step by step pictures recipe. Just 4 steps to make!
I made these last week for my in-laws, this ladoo is everyone’s favorite there 🙂 This is one of the very basic sweet we make for festivals like Diwali. Mom makes this every time I visit her specially for my in laws family and pass it through me.
She just mixes and give, I go there and shape it and give it to them. I remember this being called as seeni urundai too. Thinking that I am trying something different to picture these rava ladoos, I made them look so unusual 🙁…Bear with it! Check out my rava khoya laddu
🥘 Ingredients
Rava – Rava is semolina, cream of wheat available commercially in shops. There are so many varieties we get widely in India. Roasted, un roasted, double roasted, Bombay rava, Ceroti rava, upma rava etc.
Everything will work in this recipe. If you are using roasted, or double roasted, you just need to heat it up until crisp without changing color. But never skip roasting as it helps in powdering fine.
📖 Variations
We always powder rava finely and make it. This will give perfect results, that when you pop in mouth, it will just dissolve in mouth. But I have seen many people make laddu without powdering.
For this recipe, please follow the steps for perfect results.
You can use unrefined sugar in place of white sugar or even jaggery, but the quantity may be needed more as these will have less sweetness. Classic recipe uses only white sugar.
💭 Top tip
- Make sure to powder well. I also suggest an extra step of sieving so that it’s really fine. This applies for both rava and sugar.
- Using milk in the mixture at times gives small lumps. So make sure to mix well.
- The ghee should be warm and the mixture should be shaped to ladoos when it is warm. This way it is easy to hold and retain it’s shape.
- If it does not hold shape, add little more warm ghee, mix and try again.
📝 My notes
Adding more ghee will make the laddu look dull in color. So add only required amount. Adding milk will reduce shelf life. Rava ladoo can stay good in shelf for 20 days if made using only ghee.
Recipe card
Rava ladoo recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rava sooji/ semolina
- 1 cup Sugar
- ¼ cup Ghee
- 1 cardamom
- 8 Cashew nuts
Instructions
- Heat a pan and add the rava, reduce flame and roast the rava until a nice aroma wafts. Make sure to not change the rava color and roast evenly. To ensure this, keep stirring continuously.
- Cool down and grind it into a very fine powder using mixer. (If you are making in bulk, you can grind in mill).
- Powder the sugar into a very fine powder as well, along with cardamom.
- Transfer the powdered rava and sugar to a large bowl. (If you want you can sieve both to get a smooth finish ladoo).
- Fry broken cashews in the ghee and add these to the rava and sugar mixture.
- Mix thoroughly. First you can use a ladle to mix as the ghee will be hot. Wait until it is warm enough to handle.
- Make small balls out of this mixture immediately, roll it tight, If you could not roll and the mixture is too dry, add more warm ghee to it and make balls again.
Video
Notes
- At times we add milk as binding agent, but I avoid it these days.
- Make sure to powder the rava very very fine, if its coarse, it will not hold the shape for long and easily get broken.
- Add warm, heated ghee and make laddu immediately as this will give you mighty ladoos, wont break easily.
- Adding more ghee makes the ladoo look dull in color. So add accordingly.
📸 Stepwise photos
1. Heat a pan and add the rava, reduce flame and roast the rava until a nice aroma wafts. Make sure to not change the rava color and roast evenly. To ensure this, keep stirring continuously.
2. Cool down and grind it into a very fine powder using mixer. (If you are making in bulk, you can grind in mill).
3. Powder the sugar into a very fine powder as well, along with cardamom. Transfer the powdered rava and sugar to a large bowl. (if you want you can sieve both to get a smooth finish ladoo).
4. Fry broken cashews in the ghee and add these to the rava and sugar mixture.
5. Mix thoroughly. First you can use a ladle to mix as the ghee will be hot. Wait until it is warm enough to handle.
6. Make small balls out of this mixture immediately, roll it tight, if you could not roll and the mixture is too dry, add more warm ghee to it and make balls again.
Ladoos are ready to enjoy. we call rava ladoo as seeni urundai if I remember right.
they look very beautiful!….I am sure everyone enjoyed them…they must have tasted great!
Wowwwwwwww… Looks absolutely perfect and delicious.. Beautiful presenttaion Raji.. Gr8 job.. Yummyyyyyy 🙂
Cool rava laddos, one of my favvvv
So neatly shaped and cute looking ladoos 🙂
My sis loves it and is an expert at it. She kept asking me to do.. now that I saw it here in your blog I have started drooling for it. will make it sometime soon 🙂
Rava ladoo's look delicious! We add rava as such,never tired grinding it..will try once.Thanks for the recipe!
Oh..look @ those cuties, LOveeeee it..Loved the way u presented ..
Yummy yummy rawa laddus. I'll ask my mom to make them for me tomorrow. I'm just drooling 🙂
Delicious and cute ladoos..lovely presentation
ahh another favourite…looks absolutely gorgeous.
Wow yummy rava ladoo..lovely presentation.
Beautiful pictures Raji.. Rava laddoo my fav one as well.. No need to bear with ur pictures.. they are looking so good Raji.. did u make the murukku too for ur in laws..
they look simply divine n ehavenly raji…awesome clicks….my fav and i m drooooling @those cute beauties
looks delicious 🙂
Delicious Rava ladoo.
they are soo beautiful and perfect…love it!!
Loved your clicks, looks very delicious too.
looking delicious……u r making me try it immediately raji
Looks very delicious.. Nice presentation..
Gayu
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Looks Lovely!
hmmmm yummy ladoos 🙂
wow, they have come out sooooooooooo well..loved your presentation..very elegant!
US Masala
yummy rava ladoos…lovely presentation n wonderful click!
perfect sized balls Raks!! And I love the tray 🙂
Perfectly shaped balls, they dont look unusual looks so gud. Liners supera iruku
Love it … my mom adds bit of coconut to it too! Awesome clicks !
Traditional sweets are always in a class of its own!
Kurinji
this is the best picture of rava laddoo i have ever seen. looks soooooo good!
my mil makes these…she does not use milk…i find it tough to make the urundai…now that i know i can add milk…i shud try..
I do the same way …and urs looks so mouth watery…yumm…guess u r having a gud vacation going on 🙂
Nice pic and looks delicious.
yummy ladoos, My Hubby's all-time fav!!!! My Mom makes a special batch for him everytime i return from India!!!
Raji,rendu yedukalamaa superaa irruku, my all time fav..
they look so adorable. perfect shape.
These look so divine! Bookmarked . Will let you know how they turned out.
Perfectly shaped and neatly presented. You rock always
So beautiful picture Raji your pic makes me drool. like priya rendu illai 4.. hum no anji yedukalamaa please…
They look delicious!!
ராக்ஸ்ஸ்ஸ்ஸ்ஸ், சூப்பரா வந்துருக்குப்பா, அரை டஜன் சாப்டலாம் ..:) சின்னகுழந்தைல எனக்கு ரவாலாடு சொல்ல வராது, லவாலாடு!னுதான் வரும்..:)
Nice rava ladoos..love the presentation..beautiful pic.
Awesome click raji,though its a simple recipe.Happy holidays..
mmm perfectly shaped rava balls..yummy
Aaha Oho
Looks so soft, yet firm – refreshingly delicious to the sweet tooth for the holidays!
wow, my fav, looks yummy
Beutiful and tempting Clicks..Rava Ladoos are my favorite too…Urs look just PERFECT !!!
Those laddoos look mighty good 🙂
thats indeed great, i cant take my eyes from the gorgeous clicks. No doubt ur family enjoyed it.
Wow..thank you so much for the recipe. Rava laddu today has come out very well… Keep posting new recipes..
i made rava laddus today,it came out very well. thanks raks.
wow…it looks delicious..i'll make this for diwali:) thanks a ton Raks 🙂 ur blog is an lifesaver for me aftr my marriage 😀
Hi Rajeswari,
Here in Macau don't sell ghee in the supermarket, what should I do?
Nuno
Hi, you can buy butter and make ghee. If you want you can refer this post. http://www.rakskitchen.net/2008/09/home-made-ghee-from-butter.html
How many ladoos did you get out of this recipe? Please make it a point to add the # of items so that people can scale your recipe accordingly.
Updated now.
Thanks!! You are awesome 🙂
Hi raks!!! I came to know about your blog 2 days before this diwali when i am searching for diwali recipes. Thank god atlast i find you not only for diwali recipes for all varieties of recipes. I love rava ladoo but i dont know how to do. But it came out well this time and ofcourse your carrot halwa too yummy. Thank you raks for making my diwali a special one.
hi raks…i made dis delicious ladoo's today and it came out well…everyone loved it in my family….
Hi rak's,
Can we use caster sugar instead of powder sugar?
Yes sure you can add, but adjust the quantity as required, you may need more…
Looks yummy. How many days we can keep it outside? How many days can keep in fridge?
It can be kept upto 2 weeks when kept outside. Put avoid using milk and use only ghee. Fridge means 4 weeks.
I used your recipe to make the ladoos…turned out really good and yummy. I had to use milk though as it kept falling apart:) Thanks for the recipe…
I made laddoos today using your recipe…n they turned out really really well..I'm sooooo happy ! Thanks so so so much !
can we use a substitute for ghee
If you like butter smell, you can use melted butter. Othewise, you can do with milk.
yummy ladoos love it 🙂 thank you
I am not sure how it would taste then
which rava u have used bombay rava or banasi rava
Hi raks,
I have one doubt. You said roasted the rava means dry roasted or can I roast the rava in a tsp of ghee?
Thanks
Dry roast no ghee
if its roasted rava den
Still you have to roast it again,
I tried this this recipe and have a bowlful of rava laddoos ready for Diwali this year . They taste yummy and the steps are easy to follow. Thanks for sharing such simple but perfect instructions
Thanks a lot, Happy Diwali!