Nuts Millets Laddoo

Source:

Mrs. Lakshmi Nathan


Ingredients:

Millets (Varagu/Saamai/Thinai/Kuthiraivaali) - 1 cup

Mixed Nuts (Cashew, Badam, Pista, Walnuts, Peanuts) - 1 cup

Powdered Sugar - 1 cup

Ghee - 1 to 2 tbsp


Method: 

1.  Wash millets thoroughly and strain all of the excess water.

2.  Dry fry the wet millet in a iron kadai on medium flame for around 5 to 10 minutes until it dries up completely and puffs and pops up like pori.

3.  Dry roast the desired nuts separately in a pan and allow to cool.

4.  In a mixer, powder the puffed up millets.  Keep separately.

5.  Again in the same mixer, powder the roasted nuts.

6.  Mix this nut powder to the millet powder and also the powdered sugar and warm ghee.  Mix well with your fingertips until well combined.

7.  Run little by little in a mixer jar this mixture until the ghee oozes out and makes the mixture slightly wet and greasy and until all the powder mix is used up.  Transfer to a plate or a large bowl.

8.  Take around a tablespoonful of this mixture in your hand and press slightly to make laddoos.

Here goes the healthy, nutritious, and yummy nuts millet laddoos.  Store these laddoos in an airtight container.  The shelf life for these laddoos would be around 10 days but I have never had these last till then.  They vanish off faster.  An apt treat for your kids snack box.


Notes:

Use can replace sugar with jaggery or palm sugar (karupatti) or powdered panam kalkandu.