Ingredients
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1 cup Roasted gram lentils
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1/4 cup Ghee (Clarified butter)
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1/2 cup to 3/4 cup Powdered sugar(Depending on how much sweet you want)
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3 - 4 cardamom powdered
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few ghee roasted Pistachios (Sliced)
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(Optional) Cashew & raisins
Directions
Roasted gram lentil laddoo | Pottukadalai laddoo |
Chutney dal laddoo
Laddoos are the indian prestigious sweet that can be found on most occasions.
Call it a festival, Prasadam at the temple, or announce when a baby boy is born! They call the kids who are chubby “laddoo baby,” so you see, laddoo is very popular but not so easy to make. One can munch on as many laddoo as possible but still feel the craving to have more.
I recently found out that it’s so easy to make this pottukadalai laddoo, but I can’t explain in words what a treat it is to the soul. Children will be happy and healthy on consuming this laddoo.
How To Make?
In a pan, melt the ghee and add the coarsely ground roasted gram lentils. Keep turning it over continuously for 2–3 minutes only. Do not let it burn. In a blender jar powder the sugar and cardamom and sieve it and add it to this ghee and powder mixture. You can also fry some cashews and raisins in the ghee mixture. But I am skipping this because I love the taste of the roasted gram and sugar only while I’m eating the laddoo.
Sometimes the mixture of dry fruits in your mouth may change the actual taste of laddoo, is what I have noticed. Once the mixture blends together, start making a round shape by taking the mixture in the middle of your palm just like how you would be rolling a dough. At last, top it with some ghee-fried pistachios.
NOTE:
You have to start making the ladoo while it is still hot; otherwise, the sugar will start to harden, which will not hold the shape.
Check out my other sweets made from homemade ghee (clarified butter):
