Kids friendly Sunflower Seeds Laddu for school snack, lunch box and travel food recipe. Takes 25 minutes to make, including prep time, cooking time and cooling time.
INGREDIENTS (12 Laddus)
• ¾ cup Sunflower Seeds
• 1 cup Roasted Chana Dal
• 1 cup Sugar / Jaggery
• 5 count Pistachios
• ¼ cup Melted Ghee
• ½ teaspoon Elaichi Powder
• 3 tablespoons Grated Fresh Coconut
INSTRUCTIONS to make Sunflower Seeds Laddus :-
a) Finely chop the pistachios for garnish. Spread the freshly grated coconut onto a small plate.
b) Put a frying pan on stove top under low flame. Add the sunflower seeds and dry roast them until you get a pleasant aroma and they change their color. At this stage switch the flame and set them to cool completely.
c) Using a spice blender, grind these (one after another) into fine powders Roasted Chana Dal, Sugar, Roasted Sunflower seeds.Transfer the powders into a wide mixing plate. Add the powdered cardamom to the same. Combine all the dry powders thoroughly with a spoon.
d) Warm the ghee and pour it little by little into the powder mix slowly. Using your hands, shape the laddus between your palms as you pour the ghee for enough consistency of making the laddus.
e) After shaping each laddu roll it onto the grated coconut so that it would stick to the wet laddus. Then, top each with chopped pistachios and set them to dry.
f) When dried, transfer the laddus, into an air tight container.
Done!!
