Besan ladoo with Almond powder

Ingredients 

• 3 cups besan (you can use the regular one or the one specially meant for making ladoo's, I use the coarse besan meant for ladoos) **
• 1 cup ghee (clarified butter) use melted ghee
• 3 cup powdered sugar
• 3 tsp cardamom powder
• ½ cup almond powder (roasted with 1 tsp of ghee)
• Slivered almonds as required for decoration OR broken cashewnuts or golden raisins.
• microwave safe bowl

Method

• Mix the besan & ghee in a microwave safe bowl.
• Roast the the besan-ghee mixture on microwave high for 1 minute.  Stir the mixture & continue roasting it for another 8-10 minutes, but you need to check after every minute, stirring the mixture after every minute . Be very careful as the bowl becomes very hot, use a hand glove or hand mittens to remove the bowl from the microwave. Also the mixture will form bubbles and will rise (double in quantity) in the bowl.

• Now for next few minutes( or 5-7 minutes depending upon the amount of besan you are using & your microwave ) you need to check the mixture and stir it after every 30 seconds , because it will keep on rising and doubling in size due to microwave heat.
• By now the besan-ghee mixture will have a nice aroma & must have turned brown in color. 
• At this stage please note that the mixture should not look too dry, otherwise the ladoos will not hold up their shape. If the ladoo looks dry add 1 tbsp ghee or more as needed.
• Keep this mixture aside to cool for 3-4 hrs.
• Once cooled, add half of the powdered sugar, cardamom powder & almond powder. Mix well. Spoon by spoon add the remaining sugar and then mix. If you think the mixture need more sugar add as per taste. make small round ladoos out of it. Decorate with favourite dry fruit like cashewnuts almonds or golden raisins 
• The above quantity will yield - 30 ladoos if you use a medium size vati( steel bowl)
• **You can make the ladoos without almond powder too, use ¾ cup ghee if you are not using almond powder. If the ladoos turn too dry, add 1 tbsp ghee or more as needed. 

Please note

• Normally I mix  ½ cup ghee to the besan, then add the remaining ghee as needed.
• As I've been preparing these ladoo's for more than 10 yrs, I've got a hang of the measurements mentioned above.
• last 4-5 mins of frying the besan-ghee mixture is very crucial because there are high chances of the mixture getting burnt.
• Every microwave differs from one another. if you have a v small microwave be very careful in preparing the ladoo's you may need to check the mixture after every 30 seconds or minute.
• I prefer to taking a chair with a pillow on it, sit in front of the microwave and stir the mixture :-)
• Add more ghee if needed