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FINGER MILLET (RAGI)

LADOO

  • Serves
    - 50 Nos
  • - 1 hr, 10 Min
  • - 6 Ingredients
  • Prep. time
    - 30 Min
  • Cooking time
    - 40 Min
  • Total time
    - 1 hr, 10 Min

Ingredients :

  • Finger millet powder
    - 1 Kg
  • Jaggery
    - 500 gm
  • Groundnuts
    - 100 gm
  • Ghee
    - 100 gm
  • Sesame seeds
    - 100 gm
  • Green cardamom powder
    - 5 gm

Utensils

  • Pan
    - 1
  • Bowl (large)
    - 1
  • Bowl (small)
    - 2
  • Plate (big size)
    - 1
  • - 0

Preparation Method :


  • Take a medium sized pan and heat it in low flame for 2 minutes. Put finger millet powder in the pan and dry roast on medium flame for 6 to 8 minutes.
  • Once aroma emerges from the powder or after frying well, remove the finger millet powder from the pan and place it a bowl for cooling.
  • Put the groundnuts in the pan and dry roast on low flame for about 10 mins.
  • Keep stirring continuously till groundnuts turn light brown.
  • Remo ve the groundnuts from pan and keep them aside in a separate bowl.
  • Put the sesame seeds in the pan and dry roast on low flame for few seconds and keep stirring continuously.
  • Remo ve the sesame seeds from pan and keep them aside in a separate bowl.
  • Take 400 ml of water in a pan. Add jaggery blocks to the pan and heat on medium flame. Keep heating till jaggery melts in the water and when syrup turns sticky , strain the syrup to remove any impurities and keep it aside.
  • Heat ghee in another pan and add roasted finger millet powder, cardamom powder, roasted groundnuts and one third of roasted sesame seeds and mix it well.
  • Add the jaggery syrup to the mix and mix it well. Grease your palms with ghee and make round balls in form of ladoos.
  • Place the remaining roasted sesame seeds in a plate and roll the ladoos to create a coat on the ladoos.