aval laddu | poha laddu | அவல் லட்டு | poha ladoo | atukula laddu | aval ladoo
- Aval is the Tamil word for flattened or beaten rice. Aval ladoo is a nutritious dessert made from aval or poha or beaten rice, sugar/ jaggery and ghee. It is garnished with nuts and raisins fried in ghee and a little cardamom powder. You can also add any dal or nuts to it while grinding the aval or poha. We have shown a simple yet delicious recipe of aval ladoo
Ingredients:
- 1 cup poha
- 1/4 cup roasted gram
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup/ 6 tbsp ghee
- Salt a pinch
- Cardamons 3
- Cashew nuts & raisins 5
Procedure:
- Grind sugar and cardamons.
- Roast aval until it is crisp
- Roast pottukadalai for a minute
- Let these cool
- Transfer to the mixer jar in which we powdered sugar and cardamom
- Grind together
- Sift
- Heat ghee
- Add cashewnuts and raisins and fry.
- Remove the fried cashew nuts and raisins from ghee
- Switch off the flame
- Add the poha, dal, cardamoms, sugar & salt powder mixture to the heated ghee
- Mix well to form a dough adding more ghee if needed
- Pinch small portions of the dough and make balls. Roll into ladoos while the mixture is still warm
- As soon as a ladoo is half done add a piece of raisin and nut and finish making ladoo
- Do this for each ladoo
- Enjoy
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