Ingredients:

• 1 cup – Channa besan
• 1 tsp – Rice flour
• 1 pinch – salt
• 8-10 – cashews
• 8-10 – Raisins
• 4-5 – Cloves
• Orange color
• 4 tbsp – Ghee
• 8-10 – elaichi (powdered)
• Oil for frying
• For making Sugar syrup:
• 1 3/4 cup – Sugar
• 3/4 cup – water

Method:

1. Mix channa besan, rice flour, pinch of orange colour and salt with water (the consistency should be like dosa mix so that it should be easy to make bhoondhi).
2. In the meantime, in a pan heat 3/4 cup of water. Bring it to boil. Then add 1 3/4 of sugar.
3. Put it on medium heat to make the sugar syrup on one thread consistency.
4. Heat oil in a frying pan.
5. Then, using a cup, pour the mix on a perforated spoon and let it drop into the oil. Fry it for 3 minutes.
6. Continue with the remaining mix.
7. In a heated pan, add 1 tbsp of ghee and fry cloves and cashews. Keep it aside.
8. Once the bhoondhies are done, put it in a vessel and smash 1/4 of the bhoondhi with a spoon, then add the sugar syrup, raisins, fried cashews, cloves, powdered elaichi and the remaining ghee.
9. Shape into balls and serve.

Recipe courtesy of Prateepha