Boondi Ladoo

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Bengal Gram Flour - 1 cup
Cooking Soda - a pinch
Sugar - 1/2 cup  
Water - 1/2 cup
Raisins - 1 tbsp
Cloves - 4
Cardamom powder - A pinch
Ghee - 1 tsp

1.Mix the besan with water to make a batter of medium thick consistency. Add the cooking soda to this.
2.Fry the raisins and cloves in a tsp of ghee and keep it aside.
3.For making the sugar syrup, mix the sugar with the given amount of water in a heavy bottomed vessel. Heat till the sugar gets dissolved stirring in between.
4.Once sugar gets dissolved stop stirring and boil till this reach one string consistency.
5.Switch off the flame at this stage and heat the oil in a heavy bottomed pan to fry boondis.
6.Pour a ladle of batter to the perforated ladle ,keeping the ladle on the top of the oil and let the boondis falls into the oil.
7.When it is half fried take it out from the oil and transfer it to the sugar syrup.
8.Repeat the process for the the remaining batter. While repeating , wipe out the excess batter from the top and back of the ladle used for making boondi.
9.Add the fried raisins, cloves and cardamom powder to the boondi sugar mixture. Mix it well.
10.When it is luke warm make balls of desired shapes and store this in a airtight container.