Ragi laddu is very healthy, delicious & nutrient dense. This is very easy to make tasty too.It has highest amount of calcium (344mg %) and potassium (408 mg% ) . The cereal has low fat content (1.3%) and contains mainly unsaturated fat.It is beneficial to include ragi in ur daily diet.
RAGI
INGREDIENTS-
- 1 cup ragi flour.
- 1 cup almonds , sesame seeds , cashewnuts / skimmed peanuts.
- Half cup desicated coconut.
- 5-10 gm jaggery powdered.
- 3-4 pods of cardamom
METHOD
- Dry roast ragi flour, almonds, cashewnuts, sesame and dessicated coconut separately. I dry roasted in the microwave. In a Microwave safe plate, spread the flour and microwave high for 3 minutes, take it out every 1 minute and stir using a spatula. Repeat the same with the nuts, coconut and sesame seeds, but reduce the time to 2 minutes.
- Let the ingredients cool well. Take cardamom and cloves in a small mixer, add tablespoon of jaggery and powder it. The jaggery is added to aid grinding of the cardamom well.
- In a food processor or your mixer, take the nuts (almonds, cashewnuts and sesame seeds) and grind it to a powder. Do not grind continuously, we just need to powder the nuts first. So, grind in short pulse to powder them.
- Once nuts are powdered, add ragi flour, coconut, jaggery powder and powdered cardamom-clove powder to this nuts powder and grind it together. Now you can grind continuously for a minute for the nuts and seeds to release oil/fat that will help in binding the laddoos.
- Once the mixture is mixed well and clumps together, remove it to a flat plate and start making ladoos, Take a handful of this powder and press it in between your palms and shape it nicely into a ball .
- This keeps well on the counter for 3-4 days. If storing for more days, then refrigerate it.
NOTE- DO NOT ADD SUGAR AND TO MUCH OIL & GHEE.