TOKKUDU LADDU (BANDAR LADDU)

Tokkudu laddu or Bandar laddu

is a traditional sweet from Bandar or Machilipatnam in krishna district near Vijayawada in Andhra pradesh.
This Andhra special delicacy is originaly from Andhra but now a day s we can get this sweet all over Andhra pradesh.Now you can make this sweet easily at home also. I hope you all enjoy this one

Besan (chick pea flour) --- 1 cup
Jaggery -- -- 1 cup grated
Oil for frying (mix 2 tab sp ghee to this oil that will give nice aroma to ladoos)water – 1/4 cup for syrup
Cashew nuts – 15 broken in to small pieces and fry in little ghee till golden color and leave a side
Cardamom powder – 1 tea sp
Milk or water -- 1/4 cup(as required)

METHOD:---
1. Make a dough with besan and little water this dough should be like chaklee (muruku) dough

2.Heat oil in a deep frying pan

3. arrange muruku disk(round medium holes) in muruku maker

4 fill muruku maker with the prepared besan dough and press in to hot oil and fry till golden color(take care that they don't turn in to brown they should be in golden color only) (don't worry about shape)

5. Remove from oil and leave a side

6 Now heat grated jaggery and water to make syrup like 3 thread consistency then add fried murukus to the jaggery syrup and mix well and leave a side to cool. (take a little water in a bowl and drop few drops jaggery syrup in the water and roll with fingers that should form like a small ball)

7 .After murukus become cool break them in to small pieces with hands.and grind them in to a fine powder in a mixe (this will take 15—20 min. leave few min gap in between and run the mixe)
8.Remove the powder and sieve trough a strainer to get a smooth powder then only you get soft laddus like from sweet shop s.

9.Now add cardamom powder fried cashew nuts mix well and sprinkle little milk and make laddus.

The original way of making this laddu we use only ghee for frying murukus and we use rolu(oral kallu, or tiragali—chakki)for making murukus powder
And we use only milk for making laddu