These scrumptious ladoos are delicious as any ladoo, but much more crunchy and so light almost like rice crispies cakes, as there is hardly any ghee these ladoo. Puffed rice coated with jaggery and shaped into balls, very easy snack recipe to munch anytime. Jaggery or Gor is consumed a lot in Indian cooking during winter months. Gor, is a pure, wholesome, traditional, unrefined, all traditional made from sugar cane juice. Molasses protein, vitamins, minerals, sucrose glucose, and very rich. In addition, molasses is a good source of a lot of iron and copper. Gor is considered the purest form of sugar molasses. Let’s rush to the kitchen and prepare these wonderfully tasty ladoo with less than five ingredients and in less than fifteen minutes You will need :-
3 cup puffed rice 3-4 tbsp. roasted mixed seeds and nuts ( I used pumpkin, sesame and sunflower almonds ) 1 cup shredded jiggery 1 – 2 tbsp. ghee
Method :- Clean and roast puffed rice on a very low heat in a heavy based pan for 2-3 minutes, so puffed rice gets more crunchy. Transfer them into another plate and leave it aside. Heat ghee in same pan and add shredded jaggery, keep stirring on a low heat until jaggery starts bubbling. take care not to burn the mixture. Now add roasted puffed rice and seeds and nuts into jaggery mixture and keep stirring continuously till all the puffed rice coated with jaggery. Turn off the heat, transfer the mixture into another tray. Now work very fast, apply some drops of water or ghee in your palm and take small amount of mixture and make round balls, ( be extra careful, the mixture is piping hot this time ) you have to be very quick and finish making them before mixture gets cold. ( If there are two people make them, can be done faster ). When they are cool, store them in a air tight container. Check out my another sankranti recipe Mixed nuts and seeds brittle
