Rava Coconut Laddu
Rava Coconut Laddu is a simple, easy to make, beginner-friendly sweet prepared using semolina, sugar, and coconut and flavored with green cardamom. No festival is complete without these easy-to-make delicious laddus.
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp ghee
- 10 raisins
- 10 whole cashew nuts
- 1/2 cup grated coconut fresh / frozen / desiccated
- 1 cup semolina / rava
- 3/4 cup sugar adjust as needed
- 1/2 tsp green cardamom powder
- 1/2 cup milk adjust as needed
Instructions
- Heat ghee in a pan. Add broken cashew nuts and raisins. When cashews turn golden brown and the raisins start blowing up, remove them from the pan to a plate.
- To the same pan, add the grated coconut and roast it until moisture free and then transfer to a plate. I used desiccated coconut and roasted just until it changes the colour.
- Add remaining ghee to the same pan. Add semolina, roast it for 6-7 minutes until the aroma comes. Make sure not to change the colour of the rava. It should look grainy and slight golden in colour. Transfer to a plate and allow it to cool.
- Once the semolina is cooled down, blend it into half-fine powder and then blend the sugar into powder along with green cardamom.
- To the wide bowl, add half fine powdered semolina, powdered sugar, roasted coconut, cashew nuts and raisins. Green cardamom is already added while powdering the sugar. Mix well.
- Now boil the milk and add it to the mixture slowly and mix it using a spatula. When the mixture is warm enough to handle, make laddu. It is enough to add only the required amount of milk each time.
- Shape the laddu’s to uniform size with your hand, decorate it with one cashew nut for each laddu.
- Rava coconut laddu ready. Cool down to room temprature before storing it.
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Notes
- Instead of milk, you can add ghee and make laddus for long shelf life. If you add more milk to the rava mixture, you can make laddus out of it, but they won’t hold its shape. So, to make perfect shape laddu, add the correct amount of milk.
- Usually, I add 1 cup sugar for 1 cup rava. Since I used organic cane sugar, I only added 3/4 cup of sugar. You can increase or decrease it according to your preference or as the sugar type you use.