After Diwali the craving for sweets reduces a bit naturally. We had small packets of dry fruits which had to be used soon. I always loved dry fruits laddu which we rarely used to get(considering the price) from Udupi duringthe childhood. It used to have dates, dry Coconut, cashews, raisins, badam, pista etc. But never prepared them at home because having so many dry fruits at once and preventing them from eating wasn’t a easy task 😁 so I must say prepared these for the first time and loved the process and taste! Definitely a nutrients rich no sugar sweet. If you also have those tiny dry fruits packets which came as Diwali gift, do try this recipe 😊
Ingredients required-
- Dates – 1.5 cup
- Raisins- 1/4 cup
- Cashews – 1/4 cup
- Almonds – 1/4 cup
- Oats – 1 cup
- Ghee – 5-6 tsp
- Cardamom- 1
Method of preparation-
- Dry roast the oats and make fine powder of it
- Dry roast the cashew and Almonds and pulse them
- Deseed the dates and pulse them
- Now take a pan, add ghee to it
- To this add pulsed dates and cook till it becomes little soft, on medium flame
- Now add oats powder, cashews, almond and Raisins
- Mix well. Add ghee to bind them all together
- Grease hands with ghee and prepare laddus
- Store in air tight container
Note :
- Use dates which are slightly mushy. Once I used dates which were of good quality and it was very difficult to bind
- You can add jaggery powder as well. But I like it without any sweetner
- You can add grated and dry roasted dry Coconut as well