Recipe: Appetizing Millet laddu

Millet laddu. Millet Laddu is a healthy sweet/snack. It is perfect for mild sweet craving also a great option for kids evening/after school snacks. Iron-rich (jaggery) laddu are good for expectant (pregnant) women.

Roasted foxtail millet flour is mixed with melted jaggery and made into laddus. I am happy to share my first post on millet recipes/Siruthaniya unavugal(in Tamil). As I wanted to start with a easy sweet recipe, I tried this mixed millets laddu adding jaggery (Siruthaniya ladoo in Tamil). You can have Millet laddu using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Millet laddu

1. You need 1 cup of foxtail Millet flour.
2. It's as required of Desi ghee.
3. It's As needed of Cashew,almonds, raisins,makhana,elaichi.
4. Prepare 3 tablespoon of powdered sugar.

Thinai urundai/Foxtail Millet laddu is considered very special for Lord Murugan. So, made these laddus for Skandha Sashti. Jaggery and ghee are added to the flour and laddus are made. I tried this finger millet laddu using cane sugar, but you can very well replace it with jaggery too.

Millet laddu step by step

1. Pre heat the khadai for 2 mins in low flame.Add 2 table spoons of desi ghee in the khadai.Add foxtail millet flour and mix it well with the ghee.
2. Cook till the flour becomes little golden brown. As the color of the flour starts to darken switch off the flame and keep it aside for 2-3 minutes.
3. Now add the sugar,dry fruits and elaichi powder. Mix it well with your hands with little pressure.
4. Make a tight fist and shape it like a round ball..
5. Delicious and nutritious Millet laddu is ready..

Hope you liked the array of diwali sweets and snacks I posted this year. Millet Laddu is variation made with millet flour and is equally delicious as the regular laddus. Laddus are a popular sweet across India and is a common feature during all festivals or special occasions. Our organic finger millet laddu, organic bajra laddu, organic jowar laddu and organic kodo millet laddu are all filled with nutrition and wellness that is needed for all segments of people irrespective of. Pearl Millet - Sajja Onion Muttilu.