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Gond ke Ladoo


Gond ke ladoo are yummy and are good for winter. Gond or gum strengthens your bones and dry fruit strengthens your brain. These laddoos stay good for a month so get up, make that effort and enjoy. Happy winters! 

Ingredients

Aata - Coarse wheat flour - 500 gms
Eliachi powder of -10 eliachi
Pure Ghee - 400 gms
Sugar Powder - 400 gms
Dry fruits chopped - 450 gms 
Gond - 50 gms

Dry fruits should consist of 

Mamra badam - 150 gms
Pista -50 gms
Kaju - 100 gms
Kharig powder ( dry dates powder) - 100 gms ( if you don't find karig powder grind dry dates in a mixer grinder)
Chironji - 50 gms

Method

1. Heat 1 tablespoon ghee. Fry gond little by little until it pops like pop corn.
2. Crush gond with rolling pin and keep aside.
3. Take another tablespoon ghee and fry chironji. Keep this aside.
4. Grind sugar and cardamom to a fine powder and keep aside.
5. Heat the rest of ghee ( 400 gms) and add aata (wheat flour) and fry till a sweet aroma of cooked aata arises. The colour will change to brown.
6. When the ghee separates the mixture is cooked.
7. Keep the aata aside till it luke warm.
8. Now mix the sugar, gond, chopped nuts and chironji to the mixture. 
9. Make ladoos 





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