Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, motichoor ladoo recipe | motichoor laddu | motichur ladoo is a vegetarian north indian sweet made with besan / gram flour, rava / semolina / suji, and saffron food colour in about 40 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 10 minutes
  • Cook time: 30 minutes
  • Total time: 40 minutes
  • Yield: 15 ladoo
  • Category: sweet
  • Cuisine: north indian

Ingredients

for boondi:

  • 2 cup besan / gram flour
  • 2 tbsp rava / semolina / suji (fine)
  • ¼ tsp saffron food colour
  • 1½ cup water
  • oil for frying

for sugar syrup:

  • 1 cup sugar
  • ½ tsp saffron food colour
  • ½ cup water
  • ¼ tsp cardamom powder
  • ½ tsp lemon juice
  • 2 tbsp cashew / kaju (chopped)
  • 2 tbsp pistachios (chopped)

Method

  1. firstly, to the hot sugar syrup, add prepared boondi.
  2. mix well and make sure to coat all the boondi with sugar syrup.
  3. continue to cook for 2 -3 minutes or until sugar syrup thickens.
  4. cover and keep aside for 10 minutes.
  5. after 10 minutes, sugar syrup is absorbed completely by boondi.
  6. add 2 tbsp cashew and 2 tbsp pistachios. mix well.
  7. you can see the the mixture is dried and all the sugar syrup has absorbed.
  8. prepare the ladoo taking a small amount of boondi. add milk if required, to make moist laddu.
  9. finally, motichoor laddo is ready to be served or refrigerate for a week.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.