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Chickpea flour, sugar, and cardamom sweets

Chickpea flour, sugar, and cardamom sweets

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Indian sweet meatballs: chickpea flour balls, coated in a sugar syrup, and then rolled in grapes and cardamom.

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Recipe from Sidheeq, Plutus (Wikibooks), adapted by Recette de cuisine · · updated on

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Ladoo is an Indian confectionery made from chickpea flour. The French fry-shaped sweets are dipped in syrup and then shaped into fragrant balls.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time20 min
  • Cook time25 min
  • Resting15 min
  • Total1 hr
  • DifficultyMedium
  • CostBudget
  • Cooking methodfrying
  • Estimated cost$9.31 $0.93 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 7, 2026.
  • Vegetarian
  • Gluten-free

Ingredients

10 people
  • $1.13
  • $0.10
  • $7.05
  • $0.38
  • $0.42
  • $0.23

Prices from US supermarkets for 4 of 6 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.

Directions

  1. Mix the besan with the salt, turmeric, and a little water until you have a paste with the consistency of dosa batter. ≈ 10 min
  2. Prepare a syrup using sugar and a little water, then set aside. Heat the oil paint in a thick-bottomed pot.
  3. Pour each batch, slowly pour the batter over the oil paint using a skimmer. Once the pearls turn a light golden color, remove them and immediately immerse them in the sugar syrup. ≈ 3 min
  4. After 15 minutes, drain them and place them in a dish.
  5. Add the ghee, grapes, and ground cardamom, then form small balls with your hands. ≈ 10 min

The bill

Chickpea flour, sugar, and cardamom sweets

  • 250 g of chickpea flour$1.13
  • salt$0.10
  • 100 g of ghee$7.05
  • 50 grams of grapes$0.38
  • Oil paint for deep frying$0.42
  • 200 grams of sugar$0.23

Total$9.31

that's $0.93 per person

Estimated price; varies by store.

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Before you start

Ingredients

  • 250 g of chickpea flour
  • salt
  • A pinch of turmeric
  • 100 g of ghee
  • 50 grams of grapes
  • Oil paint for deep frying
  • 200 grams of sugar
  • water
  • 3 cardamom pods

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