Puffed Paddy Laddo Recipe
In Udupi Shri Krishna Janmashtami is celebrated with lot of enthusiasm and joy. As per legend the birth of Lord Krishna took place in dark, stormy and windy night. So this festival is celebrated for over two days. The actual festivities begin during midnight in this 48 hours period. As Lord Krishna is fond of milk, milk products and sweets, devotees make variety of sweets during this festival to please the lord. In Udupi the major sweets prepared for this festival are laddos like puffed paddy laddo, gundittu laddo, peanut ladoo and green gram flour laddo along with chakkuli.
Yesterday we celebrated Shri Krishna Janmashtami and offered him this puffed paddy laddo too. Here is the recipe for same.
Puffed Paddy laddo Ingredients
Puffed Paddy- 3 cups
Jaggery- 2.5 cups
Black sesame seeds- 1/4 cup
Peanut- 1/4 cup
Cashews- 1/4 cup
Cardamom powder- 4 tbsp
Ghee- 1/4 cup
Serves
The above ingredients will yield 25 to 30 laddos of medium size.
Preparation
- Dry roast the peanuts till the peel rolls out easily when rubbed with hands. Once it cools peel the peanuts. Crush the peanuts in to pieces.
- Dry roast the black sesame seeds till they splutter.
- Fry cashews in 2 table spoon of ghee till they turn brown.
- Powder puffed paddy by dry grinding it coarsely in mixer. If ready made powder is available that can also be used.
Method
- Mix the puffed paddy powder, crushed peanuts, roasted sesame seeds, fried cashews, cardamom powder and ghee.
- Place the heavy bottom pan/Kadai with 1/4 cup of water. Add jaggery to it. Bring to boil in medium flame, when the jaggery melts completely, keep stirring and splash few drops of jaggery syrup into a bowl of water. If the jaggery syrup does not dissolve and you can male hard ball out of it then jaggery syrup is ready. Switch off the flame.
- Add this jaggery syrup to puffed paddy laddo mix of first step.
- Grease your palm by applying ghee and make laddos of desired size out of this mix. Now puffed paddy laddo is ready.
- Offer this to Lord Krishna and seek his blessings.
Meet you all with one more interesting Udupi recipe. Till then bye.
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