Dal ke ladoo , A sweet dish for the winter

Dal ke ladoo is a traditional Rajasthani home-made sweet dish normally consumed during winter.
Ingredients
Split green gram : 500 gm
Sugar , powdered : 500 gm
Almonds, partly grounded : 250 gm
Cardamom : 10 gm
Saffron : 1 gm
Ghee : 250 gm
Method

Soak the green gram for two to three hours. Grind into fine paste without adding water. Take a pan and add 50 gm of ghee, when it melts add the ground paste. Saute the paste for about thirty minutes till it turns light brown in colour. Keep adding ghee at intervals to ensure the paste doesn't stick to the pan. Keep aside the mixture for an hour and let it cool. Add the sugar, almonds, cardamom and saffron to it. Mix well. Shape small balls from the mixture.