Sunflower Seeds Ladoo / Laddu / Sunflower Seeds Energy Balls
Indian style energy balls / ladoos. Made with few ingredients and are kids friendly, school snack, lunch box, storage friendly, travel food recipe.
Ingredients
- ¾ cup Sunflower Seeds
- 1 cup Roasted Chana Dal / Roasted Split Yellow Chickpeas / Putnala Pappu (heaped)
- 1 cup Sugar / Jaggery
- 5 count Pistachios
- ¼ cup Melted Ghee / Melted Butter
- ½ teaspoon Cardamom Powder / Elaichi Powder
- 3 tablespoons Desiccated Coconut / Grated Fresh Coconut
Instructions
- Firstly, get all the ingredients measured. Finely chop the pistachios for garnish. Spread the desiccated coconut / freshly grated coconut onto a small plate. Put everything on kitchen platform.
- Put a frying pan / vessel on stove top under low flame. Add the sun-flower seeds and dry roast them until you get a pleasant aroma and they change their colour. At this stage switch the flame off and set them to cool completely.
- Using a spice blender / mixie, grind these (one after another) into fine powders>>> Roasted Chana Dal / Putnala Pappu / Roasted Split Chickpeas, Sugar, Roasted Sunflower seeds.Transfer the powders into a wide mixing plate. Add the powdered cardamom to the same. Combine all the dry powders thoroughly with a spoon.
- Warm the ghee and pour it little by little into the powder mix slowly. Using your hands, shape the laddoos between your palms, as you pour the ghee for enough consistency of making the laddoos / balls.
- After shaping each laddoo roll it onto the desiccated coconut so that it would stick to the wet laddoos. Then, top each with chopped pistachios and set them to dry.
- When dried, transfer the laddoos / energy balls, into an air tight container. Done!!
Notes
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