Sweet Boondhi

Ingredients

Besan flour (kadalai maavu) - 1 1/4 cup (1 cup size = 150 ml)

Sugar - 1 1/2 cup

water (for making sugar syrup) - 1/2 cup

baking soda - 1 pinch (optional)

food color - 1 pinch (optional)

cloves - 3

cashews - 10 nos

elachi powder - 1/4 tsp

elachi (whole) - 1

oil - for frying

ghee - 1 tsp

Method:

• Mix besan flour, baking soda, food color and enough water to get a batter like dosa batter. 
    
• Heat a vessel with sugar and 1/2 cup of water
  
  
  
• stir it and boil it until it reaches one string consistency. Meanwhile heat a vessel with enough oil for making boondhi.
• you can check the one string consistency by pouring one drop of sugar syrup in  3 tsp of water. the syrup will not get dissolved, it will stay there.
   
• Switch off the flame having sugar syrup and keep it aside.
  
• Use 2 ladles, one with small holes and one for pouring the batter
• once the oil gets heated up, pour the batter in the perforated ladle 
   
• take out the boondhis once its' 3/4th done and put it in the sugar syrup
   
  
  
  
• fry cashews and cloves in 1 tsp of ghee and add it to the sugar syrup
  
• split one elachi and add it along with elachi powder in the sugar syrup
  
• mix everything and once it gets cooled, store it in air tight container.