A healthy and easy ladoo made with black urad dal, palm jaggery, and ghee as the main ingredients. Eat a ladoo per day to get immunity. There are numerous health benefits of eating black urad dal.
Urad dal is rich in protein and thus acts as an energy booster. It is also rich in Vitamin B and useful for women especially pregnant ladies as this lentil also comes packed with iron, folic acid, calcium, potassium, and magnesium.
Black gram or urad dal holds a high protein value than most legumes. It is also an excellent source of dietary fiber, isoflavones, vitamin B complex, iron, copper, calcium, magnesium, zinc, potassium, and phosphorus which offers a myriad of healing health benefits. Now let us see how to prepare this recipe.
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- 1 cup Black Gram/Black whole urad dal Karuppu Ulundu
- 1/2 cup Fried Gram/Pottukadalai
- 2 tbsp Rice
- 1 cup Palm Jaggery/Karupatti
- 1/2 tsp Cardamom/Elaichi Powder
- 1 cup Ghee
- 10 Cashews/Mundiri broken into pieces
- Place the black gram in a bowl and wash it thoroughly 2 to 3 times. Drain the water completely. Spread it on a clean cloth and dry it for 2 hours.
- Once dried thoroughly, transfer it to a pan and roast it for 2-3 mins until a pleasant aroma comes. Transfer this to a plate and cool it completely.
- Add fried gram and fry to the same pan for 2 mins until the gram turns hot. Transfer this to a plate and cool it completely.
- Add rice and saute until the rice puffs and turns golden brown. Transfer this to a plate and cool it completely.
- Transfer the cooled ingredients to the mixer jar and grind it to a slightly coarse powder.
- Add jaggery and cardamom powder and grind them to a fine powder. Transfer this to a wide bowl.
- Heat a pan and add a tsp of ghee. Fry the cashews until it turns golden brown. Transfer the cashews to the bowl.
- Heat a cup of ghee. Add a tbsp of ghee at a time into the mixture until you can make a ball out of it. You may or may not require the entire ghee. Quickly start making balls while it is warm. Urad dal ladoo is ready.
- Roast urad dal in a medium-low flame until a pleasant aroma comes. Please do not leave it unattended.
- In the end, while making ladoos, heat the ghee and then use it. So that ladoos can be made quickly. If the ghee is cold, you will not be able to make balls.
- If you feel the ladoos are breaking, you can add either ghee or sprinkle little milk to bind the ladoos.
- If you add milk, the shelf life of ladoo will last for two days only. It turns hard if you keep it longer.
- Only 3/4th cup of ghee is used in making ladoos. Do not add the remaining ghee.
Delicious and healthy black urad dal ladoo are ready to relish.
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