Stuffed Paan Coconut Laddo | Nariyal Ke Laddo | Coconut Laddoo

Ingredients

For making laddo

Dessicated coconut - 220 gm

Condensed milk - 150 gm

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Ghee/butter - 2 tsp

Betel leaf/paan - 3



For the stuffing

Gulkand - 3 to 4 tbl.sp

Cashewnut  8 to 10 coarsely powdered

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp



Method

Make the stuffing by mixing all the ingredients and keep aside.



For making laddo, heat a pan and add dessicated coconut and cook for few seconds stirring continously and then add condensed milk, cardamom powder and ghee and cook for a minute stirring continously.

Off the flame and add chopped betel leaf and mix it well.

Take a small ball of coconut mixture, flatten it and place one small ball of gulkand stuffing and close it to make a round ball.

Roll it on dessicated coconut and serve.

Khoya /Mava Modak

Ingredients
khoya/mava - 250 gm
sugar - 150 gm
 4 to 5 cardamom crushed or powdered
food color - optional

Method
In a pan add khoya and sugar and cook on a slow flame stirring continously till it both melts. Then add cardamom powder and food color and cook till it becomes little thick.
Let it cool down completely. It will take about 3 to 4 hours.
Take a modak mould and grease it with ghee or butter. Stuff a ball of this into it.
It will come out in the shape of modak. Demould it and serve.

Steamed Modak Recipe

Ingredients
rice flour - 1 cup
pinch of salt
warm water for kneading the dough

for the stuffing
grated coconut - 1 cup
jaggery as per taste
cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
poppy seed - 1 tsp
pinch of nutmeg powder

Method

first make a dough of rice flour using warm water and keep aside for 10 to 15 minutes.

Heat 1 tsp of ghee/butter in a pan, add cardamom powder, nutmeg powder and poppy seed and stir fry for few seconds and then add jaggery and grated coconut. Cook till jaggery melts. Off the flame and let it cool down.
Take a small ball of rice flour and spread on the modak mould, put the stuffing inside and again close it with rice flour dough as shown in the video. Remove and steam it for 10 to 15 minutes and serve.

Sweet Boondi

Ingredients

Besan/chickpeas flour – 1 cup

Sliced almonds

Food color – orange and green optional

Sugar syrup

Sugar – ¾ cup

Water – ¾ cup

Cardamom powder – ½ tsp

Few strands of saffron

Method      

Make a sugar syrup and keep aside.

Take besan in a bowl, add water and mix till all the lumps are removed and the batter is of pouring consistency. Divide the batter into half and add green color in one batter and orange in another. Mix well.

Heat oil in a pan,

Take a perforated ladle, pour one spoon of this batter, the batter will drop like small balls in a pan, fry this for few minutes and put this in the sugar syrup. Mix it and garnish with sliced almonds.