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Peanut Ladoo 

A very simple and easy three ingredient recipe of scrumptious and full of proteins ladoo which involves just the roasting of peanuts and then grinding it to coarse mixture with jaggery powder.

Care has to be taken while roasting the peanuts. Roast them on low flame and roast them till they turn brown and their raw taste and smell goes away. They should turn crunchy.

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Ingredients:

1cup Peanuts

¾ cup Jaggery

2 tbsp Ghee

Method:

Firstly heat a pan and dry roast the peanuts. Do this on low flame and roast them till they turn brown and their raw taste and smell goes away. They should turn crunchy and give a nutty flavor.

Let them cool a bit. Rub them in between your palms and remove their peel.

Now in a grinder jar take these dry roasted and peeled peanuts along with the ¾ cup jaggery powder and grind them to a coarse mixture.

take peanuts anf jaggery in jar

coarsely grind

Transfer it to a bowl and add 2 tbsp of ghee in it.

add ghee

Mix it well. The mixture should be such that if you press a small portion of it in your hand the mixture should be able to hold its shape and should not fall apart.

should hold shape

If the mixture is not holding its shape you would need to add in some ghee. For me the said quantity was enough.

Now grease your hands with a little ghee and start making ladoos.

grease hands

Take small portion and give them a shape of ladoo. Likewise make ladoos for the entire mixture. It would yield around 10 to 12 ladoos.

make ladoos

I made 12 ladoos of the mixture.

Store it in an air tight container and it would stay good for a week at normal room temperature.

Peanut Ladoo 

Tips:

Roast peanuts on low flame and roast them till they turn brown and their raw taste and smell goes away.

If the mixture is not holding its shape you would need to add in some ghee.

You can also add in some dry fruits as per your choice.

Shelf life is a week if stored in air tight container.

Do try this food-a-licious peanut ladoo and write in your suggestions via comments.