Recipe 20 - Oats Laddu

Oats Laddu

Here's presenting an oats, brown sugar version of this traditional Indian sweet.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup oats
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons cardamon powder
• 3/4 cup ghee
• few cashewnuts
• ice cream essence (optional)

Method:

• saute cashews, set aside
• partially roast the oats in a pan/bowl adding like 1/2 cup ghee, stir nicely to mix ghee evenly throughout
• remove the oats, add it to a mixer/blender & grind partially (to an extent where oats are not completely powdered)
• add it back to the pan/bowl & heat it in low
• add 1/2 cup brown sugar, 2 teaspoons cardamon powder, a spoon of ice cream essence, the sauted cashewnuts, remaining ghee & stir well
• Remove from heat, make round balls (please read notes below) & serve

Notes:

• If you are unable to get it ball shaped, don't give up :).. as the temperature goes down, the mixture will help better in shaping, but don't wait until it gets too cold, then it might become to hard
• After making the balls, set aside for a few minutes while it gets harder & then erve