Churma Ladoo is a recipe for ball shaped sweet made out of crumbled Bati (unleavened bread). This authentic Churma Ladoo recipe has been further enhanced by mixing different flours, spices and nuts. Added ingredient such as carom seeds (Ajwain) helps in digestion, coughs and asthma, arthritic pains, acidity and cardiac health.Churma ladoo is made from only 5 ingredients like whole wheat flour, jaggery, ghee, grated coconut and sesame seeds.
Milk is used to dilute the syrup instead of water for some varieties like falooda sherbet. The other ingredients used to make sherbets are — Lime juice (added to help prevent crystallization of sugar present in the syrup) and sabja seeds (basil seeds) for its cooling properties.
Churma Na Ladwa
Churma ladoo is made from only 5 ingredients like whole wheat flour, jaggery, ghee, grated coconut and sesame seeds.
Ingredients
- 1/2 kilogram wholemeal flour
- 100 gram flour
- 350 gram jaggery (ghor)
- 50 grams almonds slivered
- 50 grams pistachios slivered
- 1,1/4 teaspoons 1,1/4 teaspoon
- 1 gram saffron
- 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoons saffron
- 2,1/2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
- 50 grams poppy seeds
- 100 grams mawa (see glossary)
- 35 grams sultanas
- 1/2 Kilogram ghee (made with 1/2 kg of butter and 1 cup of oil)
Instructions
- Mix the 2 flours. Add 1/2 cup ghee and rub well
- Add a little warm water to make a stiff dou
- Add a little warm water to make a stiff dough
- Mould the dough into muthia or if it is difficult, shape them into flat oval shapes about3/4 inch thick and deep fry
- When cool, break them into pieces and grind to a coarse powder. Transfer to a large basin
- Mix in the mawa, nutmeg, sultanas, almonds, pistachios, cardamom and saffron
- In a separate saucepan heat the rest of the ghee on low heat and add jaggery. Do not let this boil
- As the jaggery is melting and as soon as it starts forming bubbles, remove from the heat
- Pour this into the mixture prepared in step 5 and mix well
- Taste for sweetness, adding more melted jaggery if required
- Mould the mixture into desired sized balls and roll them in poppy seeds
