Besan Ladoo

Ingredients:
2 cups gram flour (besan/chickpea flour)
1 1/2 cup sugar
½ tsp cardamom powder
¾ -1 cup ghee (clarified butter)
15-20 raisins/ cashew pieces

Heat the ghee in a heavy bottom pan.
Note: This is the tough and time consuming part, but the taste of the ladoos depends on this step.
Add the gram flour and fry it on a low flame stirring continuously till it releases a warm nutty aroma and the flour turns very light brown. This takes about 35- 45 minutes (or even more). Add more ghee in small quantities if required.
Once it is lightly and evenly browned, transfer it to a plate, set aside and let it cool.
Add powdered cardamom and sugar and mix well.
Shape into ladoos and add chopped almonds (optional) and raisins on each of them.
Store in air tight containers.