2cupsRice, roasted and ground to flour(yields about 2 ¼ cup flour)
1 ¾cupSugar, powdered (powder was about 2 ½ cups)
½ – ¾teaspoonCardamom Seeds, powderedpowdered
¾ - 1cupGheeI used less than 1 cup
Instructions
Dry roast rice until lightly toasted and light brown. Let the rice cool.
Grind the rice in a spice grinder to make a coarse-fine powder.
Grind sugar and cardamom to powder.
Mix all the powders in a bowl. Taste the powder and add more sugar if necessary.
Add melted ghee and mix.
Take some powder mixture in hand and shape into small ball. Make rest of the laddus in a similar way. If unable to shape the laddu, add more ghee. Ghee is the binding agent to shape the laddu.
Store in an airtight container.
Notes
First 4 steps can be prepared ahead of time. This rice+sugar+cardamom mixture can be store in the fridge for at least 6 months. When ready to prepare laddu, melt ghee, mix it with laddu mixture and shape into laddu.
Yields 22 – 24, depending on the size of the laddu.