Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, rava ladoo recipe | rava laddu recipe | sooji laddu or sooji ladoo is a vegetarian Indian sweet made with ghee / clarified butter, cashew / kaju, and raisins / kishmish in about 30 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: 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
- firstly, in a wide pan fry 6 chopped cashew and 2 tbsp raisins with ¼ cup ghee.
- fry until raisins puff up and cashews turn golden brown. transfer them to the plate and keep aside.
- in the same pan add 1 cup rava and roast on low flame.
- roast the sooji until it changes colour to light brown and turns aromatic.
- further add ¼ cup desiccated coconut and roast for a minute more.
- turn off the flame and allow rava to cool to room temperature.
- meanwhile, take another vessel and prepare sugar syrup by taking 1 cup sugar and ¼ cup water.
- further boil for 5 minutes or till you get one string consistency.
- turn off the flame add add roasted rava to sugar syrup.
- also add in roasted cashew, raisins and ¼ tsp cardamom powder.
- stir continuously to avoid any lumps formation.
- after a minute, rava absorbs the sugar syrup.
- when its still warm enough, prepare laddus with your palm.
- 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.
