Name: Craving Something Sweet? Try this Grandma’s Special Recipe of Besan Laddoo
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1/3 cup A2 cow ghee; 1 cup roasted chickpeas/gram flour; ½ cup organic powdered jaggery; ⅛ teaspoon green cardamom seeds powder

Craving Something Sweet? Try this Grandma’s Special Recipe of Besan Laddoo

Luke Coutinho (Designed by Priyanka Vithlani, Meal planning analyst)

These golden, aromatic, and delicious Besan Ladoos are packed with nutrition and will melt in your mouth. A festive favourite, try making them at home during special occasions and relish with your family.

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Prep Time 30

Total Time 30

Course Dessert

Cuisine Indian

Servings ladoos

Calories 112 kcal

Equipment

Cooking pan
Cast iron kadhai
Wooden ladle

Ingredients

1/3 cup A2 cow ghee
1 cup roasted chickpeas/gram flour
½ cup organic powdered jaggery
⅛ teaspoon green cardamom seeds powder

Instructions

Heat the ghee in a pan on low heat. Once hot, add gram flour and mix.
Roast the gram flour on low flame stirring continuously.
In the beginning, it will be a little lumpy and it will be an effort to stir, but keep on stirring.
As it roasts, it starts to loosen up and becomes like a thick paste. It will not be lumpy anymore.
You will also feel the texture has become light now.
As it starts to change colour, there’d be a nutty aroma and the paste will be a little runny with ghee oozing out.
This is when the gram flour is roasted and ready.
Transfer it to a plate and let it cool.
Now add powdered jaggery and cardamom powder.
Mix well with your fingertips and form a loose dough.
Roll it into small ladoos and garnish it with chopped nuts.

Notes

Homemade sweets are never a problem but a poor lifestyle is. Enjoy and relish the beauty of Indian homemade sweets by making it the right way and eating it rightly too.
Gram flour is highly nutritious due to its high protein content, fibre, iron, magnesium, copper, zinc, folate and Vitamin B-6.
It’s easy to carry and can be relished in moderation by diabetics too.
Variation: Adding a pinch of turmeric, pepper and topping it sesame seeds makes it even more nutritious and immunity boosting.

Nutrition

Calories: 112kcalCarbohydrates: 12.8gProtein: 2.7gFat: 5.9g

Keyword traditional

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