easy rava ladoo recipe | rava laddu recipe | sooji laddu or sooji ladoo

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 10 minutes
  • Cook time: 20 minutes
  • Total time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 13 Servings
  • Category: sweet
  • Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

  • ¼ cup ghee / clarified butter
  • 6 cashew / kaju (chopped)
  • 2 tbsp raisins / kishmish
  • 1 cup rava / semolina / sooji (coarse)
  • ¼ cup desiccated coconut
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ¼ cup water
  • ¼ tsp cardamom powder / elachi powder
  • 2 tbsp milk (if required)

Method

  1. firstly, in a wide pan fry 6 chopped cashew and 2 tbsp raisins with ¼ cup ghee.
  2. fry until raisins puff up and cashews turn golden brown. transfer them to the plate and keep aside.
  3. in the same pan add 1 cup rava and roast on low flame.
  4. roast the sooji until it changes colour to light brown and turns aromatic.
  5. further add ¼ cup desiccated coconut and roast for a minute more.
  6. turn off the flame and allow rava to cool to room temperature.
  7. meanwhile, take another vessel and prepare sugar syrup by taking 1 cup sugar and ¼ cup water.
  8. further boil for 5 minutes or till you get one string consistency.
  9. turn off the flame add add roasted rava to sugar syrup.
  10. also add in roasted cashew, raisins and ¼ tsp cardamom powder.
  11. stir continuously to avoid any lumps formation.
  12. after a minute, rava absorbs the sugar syrup.
  13. when its still warm enough, prepare laddus with your palm.
  14. finally, serve rava ladoo / suji laddu once cooled completely or store in airtight container for 2 weeks.

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.