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.
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.