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Katlu- ladoo for new mothers

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Cook Time 1 hour
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Ingredients
  

  • 1 kilogram jaggery grated
  • 1 +1/4 kilograms ghee/clarified butter
  • 1 kilogram whole wheat flour coarsely ground
  • 2 shells of dry coconut/suka copra ni kachli
  • 100 grams suva dana/dried dill seeds
  • 250 grams edible gum granules/gond/kani walo deshi gunder
  • 250 grams almonds roughly chopped/sliced
  • 100 grams Katlu powder/ batrisu powder available at traditional Indian grocery stores
  • 100 grams peepramul powder/ganthoda powder dried root powder of Indian long pepper
  • 100 grams dried ginger powder/sooth
  • 100 grams poppy seeds/khus khus
  • 1 nutmeg freshly grated

Method
 

  1. To begin with make sure you have all your ingredients in place.
  2. Prepare the dry coconut by grating one shell and finely chopping the other.
  3. Take a large heavy bottom kadai/wok and place it on medium flame.
  4. Add all the ghee to the Kadai.
  5. Once the ghee melts add the edible gum and fry till it pops up.
  6. Remove the fried gum and roughly crush it using back of a flat bowl or pastel.
  7. If you like you can fry the roughly chopped almonds in the same ghee. Be careful not to burn it.
  8. Now add all the flour to the ghee and fry/roast it until light brown in colour.
  9. Keep stirring continuously.
  10. You will notice that the ghee-flour mixture has turned light and emits a very pleasant aroma when done.
  11. Remove from flame, stirring continuously add the grated jaggery, mix well till the jaggery has completely dissolved.
  12. Now add rest of the ingredients including the fried gond one at a time. Mix well after each addition.
  13. Begin shaping the mixture in lime or ping-pong ball sized ladoo.
  14. Arrange them on a thali and once they cool store in air tight containers.
  15. Nursing mothers may eat 2-3 ladoo in a day.

Notes

If you do not have time on hand and don't wish to make ladoos, spread the mix in greased thalis/pan like you would spread fudge mix. Once the mix begins to set cut them in squares and store in air tight container.