Oats Laddoo is a very delicious and healthy sweet dish made from oats, coconut, jaggery
and garnished with nuts. Oats is high in fibre and having oats regularly helps to lower cholesterol levels.
Ingredients
• 1 cup oats
• 1 cup freshly grated coconut
• 3/4 cup powdered jiggery
• 2 tbsp ghee
• 2 tbsp dried nuts powder (almonds and cashew nuts)
• 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
Method
• Heat a pan. Dry roast the oats for 2 to 3 minutes till it changes to light brown.
• Finely grind the above in a mixer and keep aside.
• Heat a pan on a low flame. Add powdered jaggery to the pan and 2 tbsp water.
• Once jaggery has completely melted, add grated coconut and keep stirring on a low flame till the coconut is fully absorbed by the jaggery.
• When the mixture begins to leave the sides of the pan and tends to become slightly thicker, switch off the flame.
• Add roasted oats powder, cardamom powder and nuts powder and mix well. Allow it to cool down.
• When the oats mixture is still warm, grease your palms with ghee and shape the ladoos.
• Delicious and healthy oats ladoos are ready to be served.
• Oats laddoos can be stored in an airtight container for upto a week.
Notes
• If you are not able to bind the mixture or if the mixture is too dry, add some ghee and before you shape them.
• You can also add walnuts to the dried nuts powder.