These healthy coconut ladoo can be made to a soft set burfi too with the same recipe. If made correctly this recipe yields a burfi or a laddu that does not stick to the fingers once it is cooled completely. After our house warming ceremony I was left with lot of coconuts so I had to prepare these. You can make variations to these by adding nuts too.If you have too many broken coconuts during any festivals like ganesh chathurti, Navratri Devi pooja or Diwali, you can prepare these very easily. to make these healthy coconut ladoo recipe, one needs no special skills since it needs no string consistency to be checked. If you can get good quality jaggery, you can go ahead without melting & filtering it. You can just add it to the coconut. I used my food processor to grate the coconuts, so the grate is not fine. You can hand grate it with a grater or you can use the readily available coconut gratings in the frozen section. You can even use desiccated coconut, but the cooking time will be slightly lesser. For more healthy ladoo recipes, you could checkbadam ladoowalnut ladooraisin nut ladooragi ladoodry fruits ladoo

Making Coconut Ladoo Recipe using Jaggery with Step by Step Pictures

  1. Add ¼ cup water to grated jaggery and melt it on a low flame. You can do it in a microwave or stove top. Set this aside. If your jaggery is clean you can directly add it to the coconut.
  2. Heat a heavy bottom pan, add 1 tsp. oil or ghee. Add the coconut and fry for about 2 to 3 mins on a medium to low flame, stirring constantly to prevent burning. This step is optional. You can skip to the next step if you wish not to fry the coconut. I feel this step brings out the aroma in coconut.
  3. Filter the jaggery syrup to the coconut and mix well
  4. Add cardamom powder and give a good stir.
  5. Continue to cook till all the moisture evaporates from the mixture and it begins to look dry. You can even see jaggery strings in the mix. This took around 3 mins. But this depends on the kind of pan you use. Off the stove. Set aside to cool down slightly.
  6. Grease your palms and roll to lemon sized balls. If prepared right, they stay good for about a week without refrigeration Related Recipes

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