Aliv Ladu

Aliv Ladu in Marathi

Serves: 6 to 7 Laddus



Ingredients:
1/8 cup Aliv seeds (Halim Seeds / Garden cress seeds)
1/4 cup Milk
3/4 cup Jaggery
1 cup Scrapped Coconut (Fresh)

Method:
1) Soak Aliv Seeds in cold milk for approximately 3-4 hours. After 3-4 hours Aliv seeds will get swollen.
2) Heat a pan, add soaked Aliv seeds, Jaggery, Coconut. Mix well and simmer over medium heat. When the mixture becomes thick enough to form Laddus, turn off the heat and let the mixture become lukewarm. Make medium sized Laddus.

Labels:
Aliv Ladu, Maharashtrian Laddu, Healthy laddu

Shingada (Singoda) Flour Laddu

Shingada (Singoda) Flour Laddus in Marathi

In English Singoda means 'water chestnut'. Singoda flour is used to make Food during Fast in India.

Easy and tasty Laddu recipe

Servings: 5 to 7 Laddus


Ingredients:
1/4 cup Ghee
1/2 cup Shingada Flour
1/2 cup Sugar
1/2 tsp Cardamom Powder
1 tbsp kharik Powder (dry dates powder) - Optional
1 tbsp dry coconut powder (roasted) - Optional

Method:
1) In a wok heat 1/4 cup Ghee. Add shingada flour and stir on medium heat until you sense nice aroma of Shingada flour (approx 5-7 minutes). After roasting flour, add roasted coconut powder and dry dates powder. saute for 1-2 minutes. Remove pan from heat.
2) Add sugar and cardamom powder while flour is hot. Mix well and immediately make 1 inch laddus (balls) out of this mixture.

Label:
laadu recipe, Laddu recipe, Shingada Pithache ladu, Upvas recipe, Fasting recipe

Coconut laddu

Coconut Laddu

Ingredients:
2 cups fresh grated coconut
½ cup Sugar
½ cup whole milk
½ tsp Cardamom Powder
2 Tbsp Almond pieces



Method:
1) Heat a deep nonstick saucepan, add grated Coconut and milk. Let it cook on medium heat. Stir occasionally.
2) Once mixture becomes thick, add sugar and stir nicely. Mixture should not stick to the bottom, so keep stirring occasionally.
3) After 2-3 minutes add Cardamom powder and Almond pieces. Let the mixture become thick in consistency. Turn off the heat, and remove the pan from heat.
4) Once mixture becomes lukewarm, start shaping the mixture into round balls. Apply little Ghee to hand palms to make Laddus. Garnish with some Almond pieces.

Note:
1) These Laddus are very soft and delicate in texture. If you want to make them little hard, put them into airtight container and refrigerate for an hour.

Labels:
Naralache Ladu, Coconut Laddu, homemade laddu recipe, fresh coconut laddu, Ganpati recipe

Besan Ladu

Besan Ladu in Marathi

Very Popular Maharashtrian Sweet.
Besan Ladoo is traditionally made as a sweet part of Diwali Faral.

Besan Laddu can be prepared without making Sugar syrup. Click here for the recipe of Easy Besan Laddu without Sugar syrup

Ingredients:
1 cup Besan (Chickpea flour)
1/2 cup Pure Ghee
3/4 cup Sugar
1/2 cup water
1 tsp Cardamom Powder
1/4 cup Golden Raisins

Method:
1) Heat a non stick pan. Add Ghee, and let it melt. Reduce the heat to medium. Add besan and fry till golden brown. Wait till you get nice besan and ghee aroma. Remove pan from the heat.
2) In other pan, add water and sugar to make sugar syrup. We need a specific consistency for sugar syrup. For this consistency, boil water and sugar together. Within couple of minutes, once it starts boiling and becomes transparent, immediately turn off the heat. Put this syrup into fried chickpea flour. Mix it well. Remove all the lumps.
3) Stir this mixture in between. Chickpea flour will soak sugar syrup in some time. Mixture will thicken. Then add Cardamom powder. Mix it well.
4) Now make 1 and 1/2 inch tight balls out of this mixture. Place one raisin on top of each ball.

Note:
1) In the above recipe, we have used limited ghee so the mixture could become dry very fast, so keep an eye on consistency of the mixture। If the mixture become dry, it will be difficult to make round balls.

Puffed rice laddus

Puffed rice laddus

This is very easy recipe and very good and healthy snack for kids..

Ingredients:
4 to 5 cups Puffed Rice
1 cup Chikkicha Gool (This jaggery is stickier and chewier than normal jaggery)


Method:
1) In a nonstick pan, add chikkicha gool. Turn on the heat on medium. Jaggery will melt and begins to boil. Once it starts boiling, immediately add Puffed rice in it and mix it well. Turn off the heat.
2) Make round shaped laddus while the mixture is hot.

Note:
1) Laddus using normal jaggery tastes good too, but Chikkicha gool has a unique flavor that normal jaggery doesn’t have.
2) If you are using normal jaggery, the measurement of ingredients will change. You should use 3 to 3 & half cups of Puffed Rice for 1 cup of Normal Jaggery.
3) You will find two types of Puffed rice in the market. One is we usually use for bhel, which are little translucent and another is Kolhapuri Puffed rice which generally use to prepare Bhadang. You can use any of them, but kolhapuri Puffed Rice laddus look attractive and also tastes better.
4) To enhance the taste, you can add unsalted roasted peanuts pieces in laddus.

Labels:
Laddu recipe, Churmura laddu, kurmure laddu, kurmure ladu, Sweets, Kurmuryache ladu recipe

Sesame Laddus

Tilgul Laddus (Sesame laddus)

Ingredients:
½ kg While Sesame
½ kg Jaggery (Chikkicha Gool)
1 cup Roasted Peanuts coarse powder
½ cup grated and roasted Dry Coconut
½ cup Pandharpuri Chana dal
1 tsp Cardamom Powder
1 to 2 tbsp Pure Ghee


Method:
1) Roast ½ kg sesame till golden brown
2) Keep ready roasted coarse peanuts, grated and roasted Dry Coconut.
3) In other pan, melt Chikki Gool. After some time, it will start boiling. The jaggery should be at the “soft-ball” stage. That means that when you drop a bit of it into cold water to cool it down, it will form a soft ball. If you remove the ball from water, it will flatten like a pancake after a few moments in your hand. Sesame Laddus are made using the jaggery in softball stage.
4) Add roasted Sesame, coarse peanuts, roasted dry coconut, Pandharpuri Chana Dal and cardamom powder and mix well.
5) Grease hands with little Ghee as we are going to make laddus while the mixture is hot. Therefore, because of ghee, hot mixture will not stick to hands.
6) Make 1 inch round shaped laddus while mixture is hot. If it gets cold, it won’t form the round shape as the jaggery will become hard. So, while making laddus if mixture becomes cold, put it again on high heat so that jaggery will melt and you can make laddus from that remaining mixture.

Note:
1) To make laddus rich in flavour, add unsalted cashew pieces or any other dry fruits.

Labels:
Sesame Laddu, Tilache Ladu, Makarsankranti Ladu, Tilgulache Ladu Recipe

Methi Laddu

Methiche Ladu in Marathi

Ingredients:
50 to 75 gram Methi Powder (Ground Fenugreek Seeds)
2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour
1 Cup Grated dry Coconut
50 gram Dink (Edible Gum)
1 cup Dry dates Powder
50 gram Khaskhas (Poppy seeds) (Roasted and powdered)
2 ½ cups Powdered Sugar
2 ½ cups Pure Ghee
½-cup Dry fruits (Optional)
1 tsp Cardamom Powder

Method:
1) Roast Khaskhas and powder it.
2) Heat ½ cup pure ghee. Transfer it in a glass bowl. Soak Fenugreek powder in it for atleast 12-15 hours.
3) Roast grated dry coconut.
4) Heat 2 cups pure ghee and deep fry Dink. Keep aside fried Dink and add wheat flour.Roast until it becomes golden brown and leaves nice aroma. Turn off the heat; add Dry dates powder, soaked fenugreek powder, khaskhas powder, roasted dry coconut, cardamom powder, dry fruits, fried Dink and powdered sugar, mix all together. And make laddus (round balls) while the mixture is hot.

Note:
1) Some people like more ghee flavor, so add ½ cup hot ghee while frying wheat flour.
2) Instead of wheat flour, we can use soyabean flour, Moong dal flour according to your choice.

Labels:
Methiche Ladu, Methi Ladu, Fenugreek Seeds Laddu

Rava Laddu

Ravyache Ladu (Semolina Laddu) in Marathi

Yield : 15 laddus
Ingredients:
2 Cups Fine Semolina
1 Cup Water
1 ½ Cups Sugar
½ cup Pure Ghee
1 tsp Cardamom Powder

Method:
1) Heat a wok. Melt ½ cup Ghee. Add 2 cups semolina and fry till color turns to Pink and you sense nice aroma of semolina.
2) In other saucepan, add 1 cup water and 1 ½ cup sugar. Turn on the heat and make sugar syrup. We need One string consistency for sugar syrup (Thin string is formed when tested between thumb and forefinger.) Alternatively, once the syrup becomes transparent, boil for 15-20 seconds.
3) Pour this sugar syrup into fried Semolina. Add cardamom powder and mix well.
4) Cover this mixture with lid for some time and make laddus once the mixture becomes thick.

Note:
1) If the mixture is little dry and you are unable to form laddus out of it. Boil ½ cup water; add 3 tbsp sugar. Make sugar syrup and add it to the mixture. Mix it well and make laddus.
2) Use Fine Semolina for making laddus.

Labels:
Rava Ladu, Ravyache Ladu, Semolina Laddu recipe, Semolina Sweets recipe

Ginger Potato Candy

Aale Batata Wadi in Marathi

Ingredients:
1 cup grated Ginger
2 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Milk
1/2 cup powdered Sugar
2 cup grated boiled potato
1 Tbsp Pure Ghee
1 tsp Cardamom Powder
Almond pieces for garnishing

Method:
1) In a nonstick pan, combine 1 cup grated Ginger, 2 cup Sugar, 1/2 cup Milk, 1 Tbsp Pure Ghee. Stir them on High Heat. Keep stirring till the mixture thickens.
2) Once the mixture becomes thick, add 2 cups of grated boiled potato and keep stirring.
3) Now turn the heat on medium and add powdered sugar, cardamom powder. Mix well.
3) Mixture will thicken in few minutes. Grease backside of steel plate or any plain hard surface with Ghee.
4) Pour the mixture and spread evenly to 1 or 2 cm layer. Garnish with Almond pieces. Cut the mixture layer into small pieces (1 x 1 inch) once it cools down.

Tips:
1) You can use Nutmeg powder instead of Cardamom Powder.
2) Mixture should be of proper consistency. Otherwise mixture will stick to steel plate.
3) Keep Vadya open till they cool down.

Labels:
Alepak recipe, Ginger Candy Recipe, Ale Batata wadi

Pedha - Indian Sweet

Pedha in Marathi

Ingredients:
425 Gram Ricotta Cheese OR 200 Gram Khoya
1 tbsp Pure Ghee
1 Cup Milk
100 Gram Sugar
2 Pinch Saffron
1 tsp Cardamom Powder
Almond/ Pistachio Pieces

Method:
If you have readymade Khoya, proceed from step 2
If you have Ricotta Cheese, then start from Step 1

1) Heat a nonstick pan. Add 1 tbsp Ghee and Ricotta Cheese. Stir on medium heat. Within 2-3 minutes, it will start melting and after 10-15 minutes, it will start thickening. Keep stirring, otherwise Ricotta cheese could stick to the pan. Slowly, it will become thick; it will take approximately 25-30 minutes. In this process, liquid content in Ricotta cheese evaporated and starts converting into Khoya. Ricotta Cheese should be thick in consistency and should form a ball. Knead this khoya gently after it cool down.
2) Before making Pedha, mix Saffron into Milk. Put Khoya into nonstick pan. Add sugar. Stir on medium heat. The mixture will start melting. Add milk and keep stirring on medium low flame. This mixture will start thickening. Add Cardamom Powder and mix well. Keep stirring until it forms thick consistency ball.
3) Let the mixture become luke warm. Grease hand palms with little ghee and make marble sized balls. Garnish with Almond and Pistachio Pieces.

Note:
1) Add pinch of edible Color to make Pedha Colorful.
2) Sweetness of Pedha increases a little after one day, so adjust the quantity of sugar.

Labels:
Pedha, Indian Sweet Recipe, sweets to India, Mithai, Indian Desserts recipe, Peda recipe

Chana Dal Laddu

Chana Dal Laddu in Marathi

Serves: 7 to 8 Laddus


Ingredients:
1 cup chana dal
1 cup oz Sugar
2/3 cup shredded Fresh coconut
2-3 oz Ghee (Indian Clarified Butter)
1/2 cup Milk
Cashew nuts, almond, pistachios slices
1 tsp cardamom powder

Method:
1) Soak Chana dal for 4-5 hours। Drain water after 4-5 hours. Grind Chana Dal very well. Dont add water while grinding.
2) Heat ghee in nonstick frying pan. Put Ghee into the pan. Then add ground chana dal. Fry till dal becomes golden brown. Then add Coconut & Milk in Dal. Mix it well and fry for few minutes. Turn off gas.
3) Heat another frying pan. Add sugar and 4-5 tablespoon Water. Make sugar syrup. Turn off gas. Add pieces of dry fruits (unsalted cashew nuts, almonds, and pistachios), cardamom powder, 4-5 saffron sticks. Stir well
4) Add ground fried chana dal in sugar syrup. Mix it well. After each 15 to 20 minutes, give a stir. Because of stirring ground and fried Chana dal will absorb all sugar syrup.
5) After 5-6 hours apply little ghee on a hand palm and make tight round balls of the mixture.

These Laddus will taste good after 6-7 hours.

Labels:
Chana Dal Laddu, Lentil Laddu, Indian sweets laddu, Chana dal ladu