Dry Fruit Laddu | Healthy Sweets

Dry fruit laddu are specially prepared for pregnant women and new moms because, it is good for nursing mother and it also increases feed for the baby, but anybody can have these laddu as a good source of health.

Ingredients:

• ½ kg: Mix nuts, dates and dry coconut
• ½ kg: jaggery or palm sugar/ palm Jaggery
• Few tablespoons: Tiny rock sugar (Optional)
• ½ teaspoon: Green cardamom powder
• 3 tablespoons: Ghee

Directions:

• Combine all the nuts in a blender and blend them roughly, also chop dates.
• Take a heavy bottom pan and heat ghee.
• Put the blended nuts, seeds, coconut and roast them for 3-5 minutes.
• Now add the chopped date's cardamom powder and fry them for a few minutes.
• Put grated jaggery and 2 tablespoons water in another heavy bottom pot.
• Place the pot on the low heat, and let them melt.
• Filter this syrup.
• Now, add 1 tablespoon ghee into the syrup and continue to boil it for some time.
• Now, pour this syrup to the roasted nuts and mix it well.
• Cook it for some time on a low flame, insure the flame is low to avoid burning.
• Now, switch off the flame and let the mixture come down warm or at room temperature.
• Now, make small balls and keep it an airtight container.

If you are using rock sugar, then add it during frying nuts.  You can carry these laddu during long journeys and can have them as half meal.

Dry fruit laddu is very healthy for new mothers and children. It is one of the popular own version of Indian healthy food laddu. You must have it during pregnancy for the goodwill of your own and baby as well.

How to Make Ras Malai

Ras Malai...!!! Wow yummy tasting recipe. In fact it's an delicious and royal Indian cuisine. It's an all the time favourite dish mostly prepared on special occasions.  Try out this ras malai sweet recipe at home.

Ingredients:

For ras malai balls:

• For the rasmalai balls
• 1 liter milk: (creamy)
• 4 tablespoons: lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon: Corn flour
• 4 cups: water
• 1 cup: sugar

For the (syrup):

• 500 ml: milk (creamy)
• 5-6: green cardamom (crushed)
• A pinch: saffron
• 3-4 tablespoons: sugar
• Few: pistachios (chopped)

Directions

Ras malai balls:

• Put milk in a heavy bottom pan and boil it. Once it boiled, add ½ cup of water to decrease the temperature of milk.
• After 5-10 minutes, add lemon juice in the milk till the milk curdles completely.
• Separate water and chena with the help of strainer.
• Now rinse the chena under tap water.
• Squeeze the remaining water from chena with hands.
• Add corn flour in it and mash in finely.
• Once it’s smooth make small ball out of it and set aside to cool.
• Now, start making syrup.

   Syrup:

• Take your full cream milk in a heavy bottom pan and heat it.
• Reduce it to half.
• Add saffron, cardamom powder, pistachios and sugar.
• Keep boiling for 5 minutes more.
• Off the flame and  set syrup to cold.
• When it gets cold, put chena balls in the syrup.
• Garnish with pistachios and serve cold as well as hot. 

Ras malai is the rich and creamy recipe. It is a delicious and palatable dessert.  Be sure the milk must be creamy and full of butter for the best taste. 

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