Rave Unde (Rava Laddu) Recipe

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Rave Unde (Rava Laddu)

What are Rave Unde or Rava Laddu

Rave Unde are lemon-sized or a little bigger-sized sweet balls mainly made from semolina, sugar, ghee, cashew nuts, raisins, and cardamom powder. It is one of the easy sweets that you can make in a jiffy. It is a very popular traditional Indian sweet. The ingredients for making this sweet dish are easily available in the market.

Rava Laddus are flavorful and juicy. They remain fresh for 4-5 days at room temperature. However, you can preserve them for 10-12 days in a refrigerator.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup semolina (medium-sized)
• 1 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup coconut, grated
• 5 cardamom, powdered
• nutmeg, small piece, powdered
• raisins, fistful
• 2 tbsp cashew nut pieces
• 1/4 cup ghee
• 1/2 cup hot milk, optional

Step-by-Step Instructions

• Heat 1 1/2 tsp ghee in a pan/kadhai. Add cashew nuts and raisins.
• Fry them till they are crispy. Strain, remove on a plate. Let the remaining ghee be in the pan.
• Add the remaining ghee. When the ghee melts, add semolina. Fry it in a low flame for 4-5 minutes.
• Add grated coconut and continue frying for 2-3 minutes. Remove the mix in a bowl.
• Now it is the time to make sugar syrup. Pour sugar to the same pan. Add 1/2 cup water. Let the fire be medium-low. Stir once. Sugar dissolves. It starts boiling. When it reaches single-string consistency, turn off the fire.
• Add semolina-coconut mix, roasted cashew nuts, raisins, powdered cardamom and nutmeg to the sugar syrup. Mix well.
• Semolina absorbs sugar syrup, turns thick. Leave it for some time.
• When the mix becomes a bit cold, if you can handle, take a fistful of the mix in your palm, hold and press such a way that one or two raisins show up in the sweet ball. This step is just to make it more attractive.
• Make all the balls. In the end, you may find it difficult to bind the mix to form balls. In that case, either add a few drops of hot milk or heat the mix a little. It will make the task easy.
• Arrange Rave Unde on a serving bowl or plate. Enjoy eating them after a few hours, at least after 6 hours.
• It takes time to set properly. Enjoy eating this dessert! Send me the feedback!

Photo Tutorial

What is Single String Consistency ?

When the sugar syrup starts boiling, it reaches a stage, in which, if you hold a drop of the syrup in between your index and thumb finger and stretch outward, you will get a single thread. This is called single-string consistency.

Comments

ShailaSheshadri (author) from Bengaluru on October 26, 2016:

Thanks for your sweet words.

Pennington on October 25, 2016:

Great recipe and excellent photos. I love sweet things like this with coconut. Thanks for sharing this.