Chickpea flour sweet

This is a very common sweet in India; it is prepared in every kitchen now and then. Chickpea seeds and flour is widely used in most of the Indian dishes. Chickpea seeds are called as “Chana” and chickpea flour is called as “besan”.  This chickpea flour sweet in India is called as "besan ke ladoo” ,"besan ki barfi”. Barfi means any sweet made and cut into small rectangular or any other shape, if sweet is made like a boll shape (round) then it is called as ladoo, This is one of my favorite sweet. Many of the Indian sweet dishes are made using chickpeas.

Ingredients for chickpea flour sweet:

Gram flour (besan) 2 cup

Sugar ½ cup

Water 2 ½ cup

Ghee (plane unsalted butter) 1 cup

Dry fruits for garnishing 

Preparation of chickpea flour sweet  

• Take thick bottomed pan heat ghee in this pan and fry besan on low flame keep stirring.
• Fry until you smell the aroma of chickpea flour comes out, don’t let it burn keep stirring.
• Make sugar syrup adding sugar and water separately.
• Now add this syrup to the besan which we fried earlier.
• Mix it well and make it into a thick paste.
• Now take it out in a plate and let it cool make small balls
• Garnish with dry fruits like chopped almonds, cashew nuts, pistachio nuts.
• Let it cool for 30 min. then cut it into small pieces of whatever shapes you like.
• It is ready to serve.