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"Mane Adige" means "Home Food" in kannada and this blog is all about recipes that I cook. Most of the recipes I post here will be from "Mangalooru" and "Bengalooru " regions of Karnataka,India. Rest of them are the one's which I try out by improvising the recipes got from different sources.

Friday, October 31, 2008

Rave Unde/ Rava Laddu

        

This one needs no introduction! Rava laddu belongs to all cuisines, from all  over India. This is one of the easiest sweet dishes to make and takes very little time.... And needless to say, one of the tastiest as well!!  Will head straight to the recipe, without wasting any more time...

Ingredients:

1 cup FINE Rava/Sooji

1.5-2 cups Powdered sugar

1/4 cup Desiccated coconut/Grated Copra

2-3 tbsp Ghee

1 tsp Raisins

1 tsp Cashews/Almonds, chopped

 

Method:

  1. Heat ghee in a pan and roast the raisins and cashews until they turn golden brown.
  2. Add the fine rava and roast well until the raw smell disappears; Saute continuously and make sure the rava does not get burnt.
  3. Let cool for just a minute or two; Add few spoons of water to the rava- just enough to get the rava damp; Form a lump and set aside for a minute or two, so that the water gets absorbed.
  4. Add powdered sugar and desiccated coconut while the rava is still warm and mix well; Adjust sweetness according to taste. Adding the sugar when the rava is still warm, would melt the sugar a little and make the mixture a little sticky.
  5. Take 2-3 spoons of the mixture and mould them into small laddus with your hands; Cool completely and store in air tight containers.

Note:

If the rava mixture is too dry/ brittle and you are not able to mould them into laddus, you could go ahead and add a few drops of milk to the mixture. However, adding milk would make the laddus a little hard... So, you might wanna avoid it as much as possible!! :)


23 comments:

Dori said...

Simple and tasty, that's so perfect!

Cham said...

Too pretty to be eaten :)

Kalai said...

Beautiful ladoos, Ramya! I posted these on my blog a few months ago, too. Always delicious! :)

Kannada Cuisine said...

Rave unde always festive!

Recipeswap said...

Very nice looking Rave unde......

Unknown said...

Looks too good!

Priya Suresh said...

Tempting Laddu...looks fabulous...

Laavanya said...

Happy (belated) Diwali Ramya.. The laddus look perfect and the sajappa sounds absolutely delish too.

Lakshmi said...

ohooo...RU is always a festive treat ..........

Unknown said...

Sinfully delicious! But then diwali always deserves a special exemption from calorie counting :)

amna said...

Only today my husband was telling me how he likes rava laddu and I should consider making it sometime :)

raaji said...

nice rava laddoo...so perfect pic....very beauiful

SMN said...

Ramya they look so perfect

Vanamala Hebbar said...

Hey looks so tasty ramya..Nice pic

KonkaniBlogger said...

Wow, Your rava laddu looks just fantastic.

Uma said...

looks fabulous! Yummy!

Malar Gandhi said...

Hi Ramya,Small treat for u .follow me to my blog.......

Cynthia said...

I'll have to check the supermarkets here for some semolina because I would love to give this a try. Yours are perfection.

Mansi said...

wow! those look mouth-watering!!! I could eat a few right now:)

Congrats on You-Know-What!:) hehehe:) and I hope you can cook something delicious for my Vegetarian Thanskgiving recipe event man!:)

Sharmi said...

ur version looks so good. mine was a bit soft. will try this way next time:)

Sihi said...

Cool recipe! Have something for you on my blog!

Nisha said...

I tried your recipe this Deepavali for rava ladoo .My ladoo though very tasty turned out to be very hard outside. i used 1/4 water . Do you think that could be the reason for it turning hard?

Unknown said...

Rava Laddu (Rave Unde as we call it) is one of my favourite sweet my Mom would prepare only during the Varamahalakshmi Festival. Now that I have all the time in this world, am gonna definitely try this simple sweet Unde this weekend. Will let you know the end result for sure!!!
Thank you Ramya! :)