Laddu story is different in sweets! Festivals and auspicious events are not complete without a sweat. But apart from always gram flour laddu. This time something different. Try Til Khajoor laddu, Red Velvet Chocolate laddu and Pan laddu, besan laddu, coconut laddu and dry fruit laddu.
Pan Laddu
Ingredients
Betel leaves – 20 (peeled),
Gram flour – 250 grams,
Baking soda – enough,
Oil – enough for frying,
Almonds, cashews, raisins – 10 each,
Sugar – 400 grams,
Water – sufficient.
Preparation Method
Cut the betel leaves and grind them after adding some water. Strain the juice with the help of a sieve ladle. Keep this betel leaf juice aside. Take groundnut flour in a bowl, and add soda and a little juice of betel leaves. Mix well. Add water little by little and make thick curd, not too hard and not too loose. Turn on the stove and pour oil into the pan. Boondi should be prepared with the help of a sieve with small holes.
Fry almonds, cashews, and raisins with this oil. After that, take another pan and add 400 grams of sugar, and pour water. Turn on the stove and keep the caramel well. After it is cooked, add some tamale juice and mix well, and heat it. Put a little camphor in it. Pour the boondi into the hot kayak. Mix well and take the mixture on a plate. After it cools down, add almonds, cashews, and raisins and make laddu. Garnish with cherries.
Red Velvet Chocolate Laddu
Ingredients
Red Velvet Cake – 50 g,
Chocolate Cake – 100 g,
Chocolate Sauce – 20 ml,
Butter – 2 tbsp.
Preparation Method
First, take a bowl of red violet cake and dry it. Add white chocolate to this. If you don't have white chocolate, add butter and knead it. Make this dough into small balls. After that, take the chocolate cake in another bowl and after making it into a dough, add chocolate sauce to this bowl. Knead to mix well. Then take some of the chocolate cake mixtures and roll it into a small chapati. A red velvet cloth should be placed on it and closed around it. Make it brown. After that, dip these laddu in melted chocolate, take them out and place them on a plate. Garnish the laddu with almond flakes around it.
Til Khajoor Laddu
Ingredients
Seedless dates – 100 grams,
Almonds – 200 grams,
Sesame seeds –15 grams,
Cardamom powder – 2 pinches,
Ghee – 2 table spoon,
Rice flour – one table spoon,
Salt – enough to taste,
Saffron – a little
Preparation Method
First, grind the date fruits with a cup of water in a mixer. After that take a pan and add ghee. Add almonds, rice flour, and sesame seeds and fry well. Mix the paste made with date fruits in it. Add cardamom powder and saffron and fry for another five minutes. Add some salt to taste. When the aromatic smell comes, turn off the stove and put it on a plate. After cooling like lite warm. Make Laddu.
Besan Laddu
Ingredients
Sugar powder – cup,
Gram flour – two cups,
Ghee – cup,
Water – 5 spoons,
Cardamom powder – pinch,
Finely chopped almond flakes – spoon,
Chopped pistachio flakes – spoon (for garnish)
Preparation Method
Put ghee in a pan and when it heats up, add gram flour and keep stirring. Do this for 10 minutes until the color of the gram flour changes a little and the raw smell disappears. Now pour water into the gram flour. Foam will come while doing this. Keep mixing until the foam is gone. Close the stove and transfer it to another bowl and let it cool. Add sugar powder, cardamom powder, chopped almonds, and pistachio flakes and mix it with a spoon. Keep this mixture in the fridge for 10 minutes and then roll the laddus. Then garnish with remaining almonds and pistachios and serve.
Coconut Laddu
Ingredients
Grated coconut – two cups,
Sugar – cup,
Milk – cup,
Cardamom powder – spoon,
Almond flakes – spoon,
Cashews – six,
Raisins – pinch,
Ghee – sufficient.
Grated coconut
Preparation Method
First, take the coconut and remove the brown skin on it. Then cut the coconut into pieces and grind it in a mixer, after lighting the stove. In a non-stick pan first, fry the grated coconut dry. Add little ghee to it and mix it. Then add milk and sugar and cook till it thickens. Finally, add cardamom powder to this mixture and mix well. Now put it on a plate and let it cool down a bit, while it is warm, combine the roasted almonds, cashews, and raisins in ghee and wrap it in laddu to prepare delicious coconut laddus.
Dry Fruit Laddu
Ingredients
Seed removed dates – 500 g,
Almonds – one cup,
Pistachio – quarter cup,
Cashews – half cup,
Coconut Powder – cup (dry coconut),
Roasted Sesame seeds – three spoons,
Raisins – quarter cup,
Ghee – three spoons.
Preparation Method
Take a pan with a thick base and add a spoonful of ghee to it. After heating it, add almonds, pistachios, cashews, and raisins and fry them. Then put them in a mixer and grind them, not too soft and keep them aside. Take the dates in the same mixer and grind them finely. Now take the mixed dates in a bowl, add ground almond flakes, little ghee, coconut powder, and roasted sesame seeds and mix it all. Roll this mixture into small laddus. These will be stored for 2-3 weeks if kept in an airtight container.