Dates dry fruits laddu – immunity booster and energy balls

Ingredients

• 2 cups seedless dates
• 3 tbsp (or as needed) almonds
• 3 tbsp (or as needed) cashews
• 3 tbsp (or as needed) walnuts
• 2 tbsp (or as needed) raisins
• 2 tbsp dried coconut (grated)
• 2 tsp poppy seeds
• 2 tbsp (or as needed) pistachios
• 2 tsp (or as needed) melon seeds
• 2 tsp (or as needed) pumpkin seeds
• 2 tsp (or as needed) _muskmelon seeds
• 2 tsp (or as needed) sunflower seeds
• 1 tsp cardamom powder
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg powder
• 2 tsp ghee
• Some rose petals

Steps

1. Chop the seedless dates into small pieces.
2. Take out all the dry fruits and chop them.Similarly, remove all the seeds.
3. Now, dry-roast the poppy seeds (khus-khus) and transfer them to a plate.
4. Now, add ghee to the pan and roast the cashews, almonds, walnuts, and pistachios one by one. Finally, add the raisins and grated coconut, roast them briefly, and transfer everything to a large plate.
5. Now, roast all the seeds in the same pan with half a teaspoon of ghee and transfer them to a plate.
6. Now, sauté the finely chopped dates in the same pan with half a teaspoon of ghee. (If needed and the mixture seems dry, you can add 1–2 teaspoons of milk; here, I prepared it without adding milk.)
7. Within 2–3 minutes, the dates become very soft and start to clump together.
8. Mix all the dry fruits, seeds, and poppy seeds into the softened dates. Also, add the green cardamom powder and nutmeg powder.
9. Now, shape the mixture into round laddus.
10. Roll the prepared laddus in the remaining poppy seeds. Sprinkle some rose petals on laddus for decoration.