Recipe : Choorma Ladoo

Preparation Time : 50 minutes
Serves : 5-6

Ingredients :

• Wheat flour – 1 cup

• Semolina – ½ cup

• Ghee – 5 tbsp

• Jaggery - 100 gm

• Green cardamom – 3 ( crushed)

• Crushed almonds and pistachio – 4 tsp

• Water – ½ cup

Method :

• Sieve wheat flour. Add semolina and 2 tbsp of ghee.

• Add ½ cup water and knead a hard dough.

• Heat a frying pan.

• Divide the dough into 5 - 6 rounds and roll them with a roller pin.

• Roll thick chapattis of around 4 inch diameter and ½ inch thick.

• Now roast them on low flame, cooking both the sides properly.

• Take care that it does not remain uncooked on any portion.

• Now crush them into tiny pieces and sieve through a thick strand sieve, preferably a metallic one.

• Grind the remaining pieces in a grinder and sieve both the powders with a flour sieve. Grind again if required and add the nuts and cardamom powder and keep aside.

• Now heat the remaining ghee.

• Add jaggery and let it melt on low flame for 1-2 minutes. Do not let it caramelize.

• Add this ghee to the flour mixture.

• Mix properly and divide it into 12 portions.

• Roll them into ladoo form while warm.

• Let them cool and then serve.