Ravva Laddu

 Ingredients (240 ml cup used)

• 1 ¼ cup rava / semolina (refer notes)
• ¼ cup coconut (optional)
• ¾ cup sugar
• 2 to 3 green cardamoms / elaichi
• ¼ cup + 2 tbsp ghee
• raisins and cashew nuts as needed

Instructions

1. Roast rava until it begins to smell nice. Set aside to cool
2. Dry roast coconut as well until aromatic.
3. Powder sugar along with cardamoms.
4. Add rava and powder together.
5. Fry nuts raisins in hot ghee.
6. Add them to the blended mixture. Add ghee as needed and mix.
7. Take small portions of the mix and roll to balls.

Notes

   Rava and coconut together should be 1 ½ cup . You can adjust the ratio of these two to suit your taste.
   If not using coconut, you can use 1 ½ cup rava alone.
   or
   you can also use 1 cup rava and ½ cup coconut.