BOONDI  LADDOO:
INGREDIENTS:

1 cup besan
1 pinch saffron
1 pinch cardamom powder
1 tbsp rice flour
1 pinch baking powder
1 tbsp broken cashew nut
2 cups sugar

1 cup of oil
1 cup water

For decoration silver foil

Method:

* Mix the flour, rice flour, baking powder.
* Make a smooth thick batter. Heat the oil. Take the batter and pour it over a sieve with round holes.
* Tap it gently with a spoon so that small balls of dough fall into the oil. Make the balls and keep aside. Heat the sugar and water till reaches 1/2 thread consistency.
* Mix in the saffron and cardamom powder and fried boondies. When the mixture is still warm make into balls. Boondi Ladoo are ready to be served
* If the mixture cools balls cannot be made as the sugar crystallizes.
* Decorate with silver foil, cut into small pieces and serve.

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ALMOND -PISTACHIO ROLLS:

INGREDIENTS:

For the pistachio dough

½ kg pistachios

1 cup sugar

1 pinches saffron

½ tsp cardamom powder

For the almond dough

1 kg almonds

1 kg sugar

For decoration

silver foil

Preparation time:20 min, Cooking time: 30 minutes
* For the pistachio dough
* Put the pistachios into boiling water for 4-5 minutes.
* Drain, remove the skin by rubbing on a piece of cloth and grind into a powder.
* Mix the sugar in 8 to 9 tbsp of water and boil in a broad vessel until it forms a soft ball. Add the pistachios powder and allow to cool.
* Warm the saffron in a small vessel, add 2 tsp of milk and rub until the saffron dissolves.
* Add the saffron liquid and the cardamom powder to the pistachio dough.
* Roll out the dough and make small rounds.
* For the almond dough
* Soak the almonds in water for 12 hours. Drain and put into boiling water. Cover and leave for 10 min.
* Drain the almonds, remove the skin and drop into cold water so that they do not discolor.
* Grind with a little water in a grinder. Add the sugar and cook until the mixture forms into a dough. Leave for 5 min.
* How to proceed
* Roll out the almond dough and cut into square pieces which exactly cover pistachio rolls.
* Place a pistachio roll on an almond square piece and roll up.
* Repeat with the remaining pistachio and almond squares.
* Decorate with silver foil, cut into small pieces and serve it

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