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
