Maladu

This is my favourite sweet. I remember in my school days I used to visit one of my friend’s house in particular on Diwali eve to have this sweet because maladu was always there in her mom’s Diwali list. I found that this is very easy to make recently and tried it for this Diwali. I am sure henceforth maladu will always be there in my Diwali sweets list.

This sweet is made from fried gram (odachakadalai/pottukadalai) and can be made in minutes.

Ingredients:

fried gram dal (odachakadalai/pottukadalai) – 2 cups

Sugar – 1.5 cups

Ghee – 1 cup

Cardamom powder – 2 grams

Cashewnuts – 5 grams

Method:

• Grind the fried gram dal along with the sugar into a nice powder in a mixer.
• Transfer the powder into a bowl.
• In a pan, heat a little ghee, fry the cashewnuts until brown and add this to the bowl.
• Heat the remaining ghee and add this to the bowl.
• Mix the mixture well with a spoon. Make sure the ghee has spread evenly to the complete mixture.
• Now make small balls of this mixture. Make the balls when the mixture is hot/warm otherwise the powder won’t stick together.
• If the mixture goes cold, heat it once again and then make into balls.

Delicious maladu is ready. Serve after about an hour or so, because the ladus will harden a little.