Whole Wheat, nuts Dessert/ Whole wheat laddoo

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chickpea flour, Desserts, healthy desserts, Indian Desserts, Laddoo, nuts, Nuts Laddoo, Poppy seeds, Wheat Laddoo, Whole Wheat Flour, Whole wheat Laddoo

Indians are just fond of laddoo’s to a great extent. I am no exception to it. Laddoo is a sweet dish which is usually round in shape, made in different varieties/flour. I have a dear friend who does laddoo’s in a very healthy fashion. I had asked for the recipe from him, soon will post that variety also. Usually in south India I have seen more of chickpea flour laddoo’s. I wanted to try something different. Found so many recipes over the internet. Finally I mixed up and made this laddoo out of whole wheat flour and YAY! it came out well……I hope dear friends you will like it as well:)

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat Flour : 1 cup

Cashews, walnut, almonds: all together 3/4 cup ( you can add any sort of nuts you want or skip this as well)

Poppy seeds/ khas khas : 1/4 cup

Jaggery/Gur : 3/4 cups ( You can optional use sugar, but I have tried a healthier version)

Cardamom powder : 1 teaspoon

Clarified Butter/Ghee : 2 tablespoons

Method:

First dry roast the whole wheat flour in a large pan for almost 5 to 8 mins, till you get a good aroma. Make sure to stir continuously, so that the lower layer doesn’t get burned. Keep stirring for an even roast. The color of the flour would change slowly to a darker shade. Stop cooking and let it cool down.

Mean time, chop all the nuts to small pieces. Grate the Jaggery. If you have powdered jaggery well and good. Put all of them in a blender along with Poppy seeds, cardamom powder. Grind it well to a fine paste. If needed add very little water and grind it.

I added Poppy seeds to get the crunchy texture, you can skip it if you don’t want. This mixture smell was heavenly 😀

Next in another pan, heat up clarified butter.

When it is heated up nicely, pour it in the dry roasted wheat flour. Pour the ground mixture as well. Mix up everything together.

Make it into small balls, with your fist. If it tends to break while making the balls, apply very little clarified butter/Ghee in your palm and make the balls.

Now the wheat laddoos are ready 🙂

 

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Coconut Dessert

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Coconut, Coconut Dessert, Coconut jaggery dessert, healthy desserts, Jaggery, Jaggery health benefits

I am a big time sweet tooth 😀 , but my hubby isn’t. I prefer sweet rather than salt and he is total opposite to me. These days there is a lot of awareness created about the disadvantages of sugar. My hubby is quite a health conscious person than me, he wouldn’t want me to use white sugar in particular, in any of the food.

In ancient India we did not have sugar instead we had Jaggery. Indians use jaggery or gur which is a complex form of sugar. Jaggery has innumerable health benefits. Jaggery is usually made with sugarcane or date juice. It has rough texture and does not dissolve easily. But the healthy benefits of jaggery are undeniable. In a comparison of sugar versus jaggery, the later wins hands down. Most of the desserts prepared by Indians would have jaggery in it.

Clicked a pic of Jaggery I had at home, this is how it looks.

Some benefits of Jaggery :

• Less calories
• Rich in Iron
• Cools stomach
• Cures pain
• Post natal food
• Delays Ageing

This is a very, very simple dessert. No heating , just mixing both coconut and jaggery thats it.

Grated coconut (finely grated)

scrape the jaggery and mix with very little water. make it to a paste. Since Jaggery is hard, we do this.

Mix this paste with coconut. I am not giving the amount of both, you can play around.

Once you mix it with coconut, jaggery would start leaving out water. Mix well, if need add some more grated coconut.

You can eat it directly. I made it to balls and refrigerated it for 4 to 5 hrs . It just so yummy.

Both coconut and jaggery is very healthy. For sweet tooth’s like me this is a good option 🙂