Generally all of us love to eat sweets, but also few of them unwillingly avoid being health conscious. Here I am going to instruct about a simple sweet that can be prepared in-house which I learnt from my Rajasthan friend and can be consumed by everyone.
Here the sweet, "Gond Ke Laddu", an popular Rajasthani recipe, which is good to consume in winter as it keeps body warm because of an special and main ingredient, Gond also known as "edible gum" used in making of sweet. Gond is a natural gum obtained from "Babul" tree, which is abundantly available in Indian villages. Edible gum is known with different names in different parts of India, like:
Making of this laddu is simple and takes less time. So, let's see what ingredients are required.
Add ghee in frying pan or kadai as required to fry gond with medium flame and remove once it fluffs up. Set aside the fried gond, and continue to fry raisins till they fluff up. Lower the flame and fry almond & cashew pieces for a minute. Take fried gond and blend in a jar into a coarse powder.
Now heat remaining ghee and add the wheat flour on medium flame. Continue to stir the flour so that it fries without lumps and till it turns to light golden colour with nice aroma and make sure the flour is not sticky. Keep fan aside till it becomes luke warm and add powdered sugar, gond, dry fruits and mix it well.
Finally take hand full quantity of mixture in your palm, roll it to get laddu(round shape) and put in air tight container.
Here the sweet, "Gond Ke Laddu", an popular Rajasthani recipe, which is good to consume in winter as it keeps body warm because of an special and main ingredient, Gond also known as "edible gum" used in making of sweet. Gond is a natural gum obtained from "Babul" tree, which is abundantly available in Indian villages. Edible gum is known with different names in different parts of India, like:
- "Thumma Jiguru" in Telugu
- "Gondh" in Tamil
- "Gond" in Hindi
Making of this laddu is simple and takes less time. So, let's see what ingredients are required.
Ingredients:
- Wheat flour - 3 cups
- Gond(Edible Gum) -1/4 cup
- Powdered sugar or Bura(if available) -1/2 cup
- Ghee - 3/4 cup
- Almonds -1/4 cup
- Cashews - 1/4 cup
- Raisins -1/4 cup
- Elachi or cardamom powder -1/2 tsp
Procedure:
Break almonds, cashew into small pieces.Add ghee in frying pan or kadai as required to fry gond with medium flame and remove once it fluffs up. Set aside the fried gond, and continue to fry raisins till they fluff up. Lower the flame and fry almond & cashew pieces for a minute. Take fried gond and blend in a jar into a coarse powder.
Now heat remaining ghee and add the wheat flour on medium flame. Continue to stir the flour so that it fries without lumps and till it turns to light golden colour with nice aroma and make sure the flour is not sticky. Keep fan aside till it becomes luke warm and add powdered sugar, gond, dry fruits and mix it well.
Finally take hand full quantity of mixture in your palm, roll it to get laddu(round shape) and put in air tight container.
Benefits:
Since we add dry-fruits, nuts & seeds, it is very good for new mothers and children. It provides instant energy and as said these laddu's are very good during winter
So why wait, prepare homely, delicious and healthy sweet.
Let me know if anybody needs more details.
