Rava (Semolina or Suji) Ladoo – Indian Sweet
Rava laddoo is a traditional Indian subcontinental sweet dish made out of rava, milk, sugar and cashews shaped as balls, one of the most popular south Indian sweet. Rava also spelled as Ravva,rawa, Rave, Sooji, Suji, Semolina. The ingredients to make Rava ladoo are easily available everywhere in the world. Rava laddoo is one of the easy sweet dish which can be prepared within 15 minutes. This dish is very famous during Krishna Jayanthi (also known as Gokulashtami or Janmashtami), a popular north indian Hindu festival. Rava laddoo also spelled as Rava Laddoo, Rawa Ladoo, Sooji Ka Laddo, Suji Ke Laddoo, Semolia Laddu etc.
There are many types of Laddos available. One of the most popular version is Boondi Laddu or Besan ladoo. But this besan ladoo is not so easy to prepare. So, i would like to go for other variety which is very simple and easy to prepare – Rava Ladoo. Rava is also known Semolina, Suji, Sooji, Ravai etc.
Whenever my mom prepares ladoos, she prepares 100′s of laddoos. Still I remember my father never said “enough” to rava laddoos 
… He can finish 6 – 7 laddus at one time. This laddoo is not only my fathers’ favorite but also my favorite indian sweet. This is the first sweet reicpe, which I learnt from my mom during the school days. I served rava laddoos to few of my german class mates, they liked it so much. So, I thought why not to share with you. In this recipe I have used sugar sprinkles (German name: Zuckersteusel) to make colourful laddoos. Usually, Germans use these sugar sprinkles for preparing cakes, but in this recipe I given a try to make colourful rava laddu or rava urundai. Some people add safron to get a nice aroma. But I like the aroma of cardomom, I used just cardomoms.
Don’t forget to check my other spicy indian snack – Maida diamond cuts, which may neutralise over sweet of this Rava laddu sweet.
In this food blog, this time i am going to write an easy recipe guide to make Rava ladoo – a most popular Indian sweet dessert with step by step recipe photos. Try this favourite Indian sweet recipe and share your tasty experiences with us.
Indian Recipe – Step by step images – How to make Rava (Semolina or Suji) Ladoo – Indian Sweet
Ingredients:
Rava / Semolina / Suji– 1 cup
Sugar – 1 cup
Ghee/Butter – 25 gms
Milk –500ml
Cardamom-10
Cashew nuts – 10 whole nuts
Raisins – 10 nos
Grated fresh coconut – 25 gms
Sugar / Choco sprinkles – 50gm
Sugar – 5tbsp.
Recipe Preparation- Rava (Semolina or Suji) Ladoo – Indian Sweet:
Step2 – Sugar Preparation:
Dry grind a cup of sugar finely. Take out the sugar powder in a bowl.
Sugar Praparation
Step 3 – Sugar Powder:
Sugar powder is ready to make laddoos.
Sugar powder is ready to make laddoos
Step 4 – Preparation of milk for making laddoos
Boil the milk on another burner parallely, So that the milk thickens to 200ml.
Preparation of milk for making laddoos
Step 5 – trasfering Semolina and sugar:
Transfer the roasted rava and sugar powder to a bowl.
Semolina and sugar trasferred to a bowl
Step 6 – Roasting Cashews, kismis and elaichi:
Heat 3 tsp of ghee on a nonstick pan, Once the ghee is hot enough, roast cashew nuts, raisins and splitted cardomoms. Once the raisins ballons up trasfer it to the above bowl.
Frying cashews raisins cardomoms
Step 7 – Seasoning:
Once the raisins ballons up trasfer it to the above bowl.
Seasoning rava laddoo with raisins and cashews
Step 8 – Mixing hot milk with laddoo mixture
Mix all the ingredients and take a small portion of the laddoo mixture in a bowl, add little warm milk and mix well. Make sure if you are able to gather it as balls. (If the milk is too hot, you got to burn your fingers. So use warm milk for making any laddoo). Make it as medium size balls.
(If you find this step is difficult, add warm milk to all the ingredients. When the milk added is enough to make laddoos, transfer it back to the pan and cook in sim for 2 mins. Then turn off the burner. When the mixture is warm, make it as balls)
Mixing hot milk with laddoo mixture
Step 9- semisolid laddoo mixture:
Semisolid state laddoo mixture is ready to make laddoos.
semi-solid laddoo mixture
Step 10 – Coating laddus with coarse sugar:
Take coarse sugar and sugar sprinkles in two different plates. Now coat the laddoos with coarse sugar and sugar sprinkles.
coating laddoos with coarse sugar
Step 11 – Coating laddus with sugar sprinkles:
Apply sugar sprinkles over the laddu.
Coating sugar sprinkles on laddoo
Step 12 – Now your yummy tasty colourful is ready to serve!
2. You may also add few Saffron which gives nice aroma to the laddus.
3. Some people use grated coconut. If you use grated coconut, laddoos should be finished in a week otherwise it may spoil.
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