Wheat flour ladoo/Healthy and tasty ladoo

When I was a child, I was a great fan of ladoos and often we use to buy ladoos from sweet stall, because in down south, making ladoo was not in our tradition. Later when I became a health conscious person, I stopped eating ladoos as I doubted the colouring agents and oils used for making ladoos in shops. Ever since, I wanted to make it of my own in a healthy way.

        Here I have used wheat flour, dry fruits, black jaggery and desi ghee to make this healthy ladoo. It’s very simple, healthy and tasty.

What you need for making wheat flour ladoo?

·        1 cup dry fruits

·        1 cup black jaggery

·        2 cups wheat flour

·        100 ml desi ghee

How to make this wheat ladoo?

1.    Heat 50 ml of ghee in a pan and add all the dry fruits and roast it. Roast it until the dry fruits turn light brown colour.

2.   Once it gets roasted well, remove the dry fruits from the ghee and store it aside.

3.   In the same ghee add 2 cups of finely powdered wheat flour and stir it well.

4.   Roast it well for 10 to 15 minutes until it releases nice aroma. The aroma fills the entire room.

5.   Once it is done, switch of the flame and allow it to cool down for 2 minutes

6.   After 2 minutes when the heat has subsided a little, add the roasted dry fruits and shredded black jaggery to the flour and also add the remaining 50ml hot ghee

7.   Mix it well and take a small portion of the mixture in your hand and gently swirl it to make it into round shaped ladoos.

8.   Healthy and tasty homemade ladoo is ready.

Making sweet ladoos in winter season is a tradition in North India which inspired me to try this one. Making of this ladoo is very simple that even beginners can do this

What are the variations we can make?

Ø Instead of wheat flour we can add besan flour, ragi flour or any other flours.

Ø We can add shredded coconut to enhance the taste but adding coconut will not allow the ladoo to last long. We have to refrigerate it.

Ø Here I have added only little ghee which makes the ladoo look little dry. You can add more ghee to increase its moisture.

Ø Here I have just pulsed the dry fruits and mixed with the flour. It tastes good while biting the dry fruits. But it can also be made into fine powder which enhances the texture of the ladoo.

How does this wheat flour ladoo help us?

Ø Making sweet ladoos in winter season is a tradition in North India as it keeps as warm by increasing the body heat in winter.

Ø Black jaggery which I have used here is rich in iron and keeps us healthy and strong. It is good for our bones.

Ø Dry fruits are rich in anti-oxidants and they are anti-inflammatory in character.

Ø Ghee increases warmth in the body and also moisturizes our skin in winter

I hope you like it and give a trial

Also view:
unni appam/sweet paniyaram

Be Healthy, Happy and Long-lived😊😊😊