Dry Fruits laddu-No Sugar/ Jaggery
These are super Healthy and fulfilling laddus ,they will get your kids favorite real quick so lets feed them something that is health and power packed morning snack. These can be used post pregnancy to help you with those sweet cravings. Inspiration for these laddus comes from my mother in law (you are amazing mom)
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp raisins / dry grapes
- 1 tbsp ghee / clarified butter optional
- 1 cup seedless dates / karjur
- ¼ cup pistachios
- ¼ cup cashews
- ½ tsp cardamom powder
- ¼ cup Almonds
Instructions
- In a blender take 1 cup of seedless dates and dry blend around 4-5 pulses.
- Blend dates coarsely. keep aside.
- Now finely chop cashews, pistachios and almonds. Do not powder them as you wont enjoy the crunchy bites.
- Now take a kadai and add a tbsp of ghee.
- Add all the dry fruits like raisins, cashews, pistachios and almonds.
- Fry them on medium flame for 3-4 minutes till they change colour lightly.
- Now add coarsely blend dates.
- Continue to fry on medium flame smashing dates with a spatula. this helps dates to separate out and mix uniformly with other dry fruits.
- Also add cardamom powder and continue to saute.
- Saute till the dates start releasing oil.
- Turn off the flame and allow to cool for about 2-3 minutes.
- Then immediately start making laddus. do not cool completely, then you wont be able to make laddus.
- you can coat your laddus with desiccated coconut by rolling them in the desiccated coconut powder(this step is completely optional)
- Serve immediately or store ladoo in airtight container.
Notes
- I used mejdool dates they are super soft so there is a quick fix to this recipe too, just chop the nuts and dry fruits with a knife. Kneed the dates well, just add the chopped nuts and roll to balls. But to use this method the dates have to be super soft. If you are accessible to mejdool dates that are not pressed then you can follow this method.
- You can coat the laddus with desiccated coconut too.
- You can just dry roast your ingredients too and make these laddus without ghee
