Sweet potato ladoo - Healthy dessert for Navratri vrat or any other religious fasting.
Ingredients:
- 300 grams or 1 ½ cups Sweet potatoes boiled, peeled, mashed
- 1 tablespoon Ghee (clarified butter)
- ½ cup Phool makhana (Fox nuts or lotus seeds)
- 3-4 Cashew nuts chopped
- 1 tablespoon Raisins
- 1-2 tablespoons Sugar or to taste
- 1 teaspoon Rose water
Instructions:
Preparation:
- First boil the sweet potatoes in pressure cooker till it gets soft. Instead you can steam it as well.
- Once cool to touch, peel the skin and discard. Then mash till it is smooth.
- Heat 1 teaspoon of ghee in a pan on medium heat.
- Once hot add makhana and roast for 2-3 minutes or till they are crispy and change the color slightly.
- Them remove it to a plate or bowl and keep it aside to cool.
- Heat the remaining ghee in the same pan.
- Now add cashews and roast till they are light brown in color. Then drain the excess ghee and remove it to a bowl.
- Now add raisins and roast till they are plump. Drain the ghee and remove it to the same bowl.
- Now makhana should be cool, make fine powder into the grinder.
Making sweet potato ladoo recipe:
- Now again heat the remaining ghee and add mashed sweet potato.
- Mix and cook for 2-3 minutes.
- Now add sugar and rose water.
- Mix well as sugar melts it will become loose. Continue stirring and cooking till the mixture gets thick and there is no more moisture.
- Remove it to a plate and let it cool to touch.
- Once cooled, add fried cashews and raisins. Mix well using hands.
- Now grease your palm and start shaping the ladoos.
- Now add the ladoo into the makhana powder. Roll into it to coat from all the sides.
- Similarly prepare all the ladoos this way.
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