Dry Nuts Ladoo | Dry Fruits Ladoo | Ladoo Recipes
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Recipe type: Sweet
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 15-16 ladoo
 
Loaded with dry nuts & fruits, laced with fragrant spices, a special sweet for the new year, dry nuts ladoo
Ingredients
Dry Nuts/Fruits:
  • ¼ cup pista
  • ¼ Cup cashews/godambi
  • ¼ Cup almonds/badam
  • 8-10 seedless dates/hasi kharjura
  • 5-6 dry dates/vana kharjura
  • ¼ Cup raisins/vana drakshi
Spices:
  • 6-8 elaichi
  • 1 laung
  • 1-2 shreds of mace
  • 1 small pinch nutmeg
  • ¼ Tsp dry ginger powder/sonth/shunthi pudi
  • 1 Tbsp gasa-gase/khus-khus/poppy seeds
For Jaggery Syrup:
  • ¾ Cup jaggery
  • 2 Tbsp water
Other Ingredients:
  • ½ Cup desiccated coconut
  • 3 Tbsp ghee
Method
  1. Keep all dry nuts and fruits together
  2. Chop up the cashews, pista and almonds/badam
  3. Also chop up both kinds of dates
  4. In a pan, lightly toast mace, elaichi and laung
  5. In a mortar, pound the elaichi seeds, mace and laung
  6. Lightly toast gasa-gase/khus-khus/poppy seeds
  7. Take the chopped nuts in a bowl
  8. Next add dates and raisins
  9. Add toasted gasa-gase/khus-khus/poppy seeds
  10. Desiccated coconut can go in next
  11. Sprinkle the pounded spices
  12. Also add a pinch of nutmeg, dry ginger powder
  13. Mix all the ingredients very well, set aside
  14. In a pan, add powdered jaggery
  15. Add 2 Tbsp water to start melting the jaggery, bring it to heat
  16. Jaggery starts melting
  17. When it completely melts, it will start to thicken slightly
  18. Once you can see single-thread consistency, jaggery syrup is ready
  19. Pour this syrup carefully over the mixture
  20. Next add ghee to bring everything together and to enrich the ladoo
  21. Let it cool slightly
  22. When you can handle the mixture, mix everything
  23. With greased hands (with little ghee) make ladoo or unde
  24. Enjoy as a snack for a quick energy bite or make them for a festival
Notes
You can add any dry nuts/fruits you have on hand, base usually is almonds, cashews, dates and raisins

Make sure the jaggery is clean or strain the syrup after making the syrup

Do not overboil the syrup, you will end up with hard ladoos

Pulse the dry nuts in mixie or your processor if you do not want to chop the nuts by hand
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/dry-nuts-ladoo/