Easy and simple, yet healthy laddu dessert recipe made with wheat flour, mixed dry fruits and edible gum
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 15 minutes
- Cook time: 25 minutes
- Total time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 17 ladoo
- Category: sweet
- Cuisine: maharashtra
Ingredients
- 6 tbsp ghee / clarified butter
- ½ cup (100 gm) gond / dinka / edible gum / anutu
- 2 tbsp cashew / kaju (chopped)
- 2 tbsp almonds / badam (chopped)
- 2 tbsp raisins / kishmish
- 1½ cup (100 gm) dry coconut / kopra, grated
- 2 tbsp poppy seeds / khus khus / gasgase
- ¾ cup (100 gm) dry khajur / chuara / dry dates (seedless)
- ¼ tsp cardamom powder / elachi powder
- ¼ tsp nutmeg powder / jaiphal powder
- 1 cup (200 gm) jaggery / gud
- 2 tbsp water
Method
- firstly, in a tawa heat ¼ cup ghee and roast ½ cup gond in batches.
- crush the gond using your hand or with a help of rolling pin.
- also roast dry fruits, 1½ cup dry coconut and 2 tbsp poppy seeds.
- roast khajur powder with 2 tbsp ghee on low flame.
- transfer the roasted khajur powder into the same bowl.
- additionally add ¼ tsp cardamom powder and ¼ tsp nutmeg powder.
- mix well making sure all the dry fruits are well combined. keep aside.
- pour 1 string jaggery syrup over dry fruit mixture and mix well.
- now start making ladoo (greased hand) when the mixture is still hot / warm.
- finally, enjoy gond ladoo / dinkache ladoo for a month when stored in airtight container.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.