Poha Laddoo | Flattened rice laddoo | Janmashtami Prasad recipe
Easy, quick, delicious and nutritious laddoos made usingflattened rice (poha).
Servings 11 laddoos
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups of thick flattened rice (poha)
- ½ cup of grated dry coconut
- 2 tbsp of sesame seeds
- ½ cup of jaggery
- 3 tbsp warm, melted ghee + ½ tsp ghee
- 7 to 8 almonds, chopped
- 7 to 8 cashew nuts, chopped
- ½ tsp cardamom powder
Instructions
- Heat a pan and add the poha. Dry roast the poha on low flame till it turns crispy.
- Remove roasted poha from the pan and keep aside.
- In to the same pan, add grated dry coconut. Saute till it starts changing colour. Remove and keep aside.
- Add sesame seeds and saute till it is roasted well. Keep aside.
- Add ½ a tsp of ghee into the pan. When the ghee starts melting, add chopped almonds and chopped cashew nuts. Saute till they turn crisp.
- Remove and keep aside.
- Allow all the roasted ingredients to cool completely.
- Now, into a mixer jar, add roasted poha and blend to a fine powder.
- Next, add roasted coconut into the mixer jar and blend again alongwith poha powder.
- Further, add jaggery into the mixer jar and blend everything again.
- Transfer this ground mixture to a plate.
- Add cardamom powder to the mixture.
- Add roasted sesame seeds and nuts.
- Add warm ghee to the mixture and mix well. Initially add 2 tbsp ghee. In case you need more ghee to bind the mixture into laddoos, you can add more ghee. I have added 3 tbsp of warm ghee.
- Shape the mixture into small round laddoos by gently pressing it between your palms.
- Poha laddoos are ready to be served.
- It is best to consume these laddoos fresh. However, these laddoos can be stored in the refrigerator easily upto a month.