Tilgud ladoo

Healthy, delicious and simple #Vegan recipe of ladoos prepared with sesame seeds, jaggery, peanuts and desiccated coconut.

INGREDIENTS:

145 grams organic unpolished or unhulled white sesame seeds or 1 cup organic unpolished white sesame seeds (safed til)
40 grams organic raw peanuts or 1⁄4 cup peanuts (moongphalli)
20 grams desiccated coconut or 1⁄4 heaped cup desiccated coconut (nariyal ka boora)

100 grams organic jaggery powder (gud) or 1⁄2 cup heaped organic jaggery powder or grated jaggery
1⁄2 teaspoon cardamom powder (choti elaichi powder)
INSTRUCTIONS:

Roast sesame seeds to make til gud ladoo
before you begin, take the sesame seeds (til) in a plate or tray. pick them if there are any small tiny stones. then heat a thick bottomed pan. keep the flame to low or medium and add 1 cup unpolished white sesame seeds.
on a low flame or sim, stirring often roast the sesame seeds.
Roast for 4 to 5 minutes on a low flame. taste a few sesame seeds and they should be crisp and crunchy. then remove them in a plate or tray.
Roast peanuts and desiccated coconut
in the same pan, add 1/4 cup peanuts.
Keep on roasting till the peanuts become crunchy.
Cool and taste a few peanuts. You should not feel even a bit of hardness or rawness while eating them. If yes , then continue to roast for some more minutes. You can even roast the peanuts in an oven. Remove the peanuts also and keep aside.
Add 1/4 heaped cup desiccated coconut. switch off the flame.
Roast the coconut with the flame being switched off.
Roast till you get a light golden color.
Remove the roasted coconut in the same plate in which the peanuts were kept. or you can keep all three – sesame seeds, peanuts and coconut in one plate. let them cool down or become warm
Making til gud ladoo mixture:

1. Add them in a grinder jar.
2. Add 1/2 cup heaped jaggery powder and 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder.
3. Run the grinder or mixer for a few seconds and then stop.
4. Check the consistency. scrape the sides and add in the jar. you can also use the pulse option in your grinder.
5. Continue in the same way, till you get a consistency in the mixture, where a bit of oil releases from the sesame seeds, peanuts and coconut.
6. Take a small portion of the mixture in your hands and then press. it should hold shape and not crumble. Don’t grind at one stretch or grind too much as then much oil will be released from the mixture.

Shaping til gud ke ladoo:

1. Remove the ladoo mixture in a plate or tray.
2. Take a small portion of the til ladoo mixture in your palms and begin to shape it into ladoos.
3. Make ladoos with the rest of the mixture. This recipe yields 14 to 15 til ladoos. The recipe can be easily doubled or tripled.
4. Store the sesame jaggery ladoos in an airtight jar.
5. Serve til gud ke ladoo as a sweet snack.