OATS AND NUTS LADDU

OATS AND NUTS LADDU (a simple and healthy snack)
By: Deepa Sujesh

INGREDIENTS :-

Oats – 100 gms
Jaggery – 150 gms grated
Nuts - ½ cup Toasted and chopped
Raisins – ½ cup
Ghee – 1 tblspn or to spread on hands while rolling
Water – 50 ml

METHOD :-

Take oats in a dry pan and toast it for few minutes till you get nice aroma of it. Remove on to a plate and allow to cool down.

Powdered nuts and oats.

Heat jaggery and water in a kadai and heat it up. Let the jaggery melt down and begins to bubble up.

Let it bubble untill it gets thick and the right consistency.

Now add the powdered mixture and Raisins. Mix well.

Switch off and add little ghee.Mix well.

Now while it is still warm. Apply some ghee in your fingers and form small balls out of it.

Arrange it and serve or allow it to cool completely and put in a air tight container.

Tips:

You can use sugar instead of jaggery . But jaggery makes it so healthy and tasty than sugar.You can add any flavoring in this like cocoa, vanilla, coconut.You can add any nuts like you wish.
If your mixture gets cool and started to stuck in the bottom, just put it back on a low heat . The jaggery will melt again. Now form balls out of it.