Churma Ladoos (Prasadam for Ganeshji)

Name: Churma Ladoos (Prasadam for Ganeshji)
Total time: 300 s
Yield: Makes 24 pcs
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 2 cups coarse wheat flour; 2 tb spoon besan; 2 tb spoon sooji (small variety); 2 tb spoon clarified butter (for moin); 1 cup clarified butter; 11/4 cups powdered jaggery; 2 tb.spoon golden raisins; 1 t.spoon cardamom powder; 1/2 t.spoon nutmeg powder; 2 t.spoon poppy seeds to sprinkle; 1/2 cup +1 tb spoon warm water

Bina Samir Telivala @Bina_Samir

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Ganpati Bappa Moriya .
Ganpati Festival is celebrated with more pomp & fame in Maharashtra & Gujarat than any where in the World. A lot many varieties of offerings is made to Bappa like assorted Modaks which is Bappa's favourite, Churma ladoos , Vatli Dal , Puran Polis .Today we will see 1 such Prasadam recipes ie Churma Ladoos.
These ladoos are very healthy as they are not fried but baked & jaggery has been used instead of sugar .
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Ingredients

5 minutes

Makes 24 pcs

2 cupscoarse wheat flour
2 tbspoon besan
2 tbspoon sooji (small variety)
2 tbspoon clarified butter (for moin)
1 cupclarified butter
11/4 cupspowdered jaggery
2tb.spoon golden raisins
1t.spoon cardamom powder
1/2t.spoon nutmeg powder
2t.spoon poppy seeds to sprinkle
1/2 cup+1 tb spoon warm water

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Steps

5 minutes

1

Assemble all the ingredients.
2

Mix clarified butter (2 tb spoon) in the flours to resemble crumbly texture.Add warm water slowly to make a stiff dough.Cover & rest the dough for 20 minutes.
3

Crumble the dough & make stiff oval balls from it as shown in the pic below 👇 Make all the oval shaped balls the same way. Bake them on a lined butter paper square mold at 160 c for 20 minutes, turning once in between.
4

Cool the oval balls & break them unevenly. Now take the crumbled mixture in a big mixer jar & churn to semi- fine powder. Sieve the powder & grind the balance hard part left in the sieve again to fine powder.
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Take 1 t.spoon. clarified butter in a small pan & fry the raisins. Remove & cut a few to small pieces & leave a few for garnish. Add the raisin pieces in the powdered mixture.
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Heat clarified butter in a pan. Add powdered jaggery in it & let the jaggery melt. Switch off the gas flame immediately. Stir jaggery & clarified butter very well & pour the liquid mixture (jaggery & clarified butter) into the flour mixture & mix with the help of a sorted spoon / spatula. Add cardamom & nutmeg powders. Mix very well.
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Now press little mixture into the mold (ladoo mold) as shown in the picture 👇. Invert the mold on to a plate. Press 1-1 raisin on top of each ladoo. Also sprinkle poppy seeds on the ladoos. Keep 'Durva' also which is Lord Ganesha 's favourite.
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On the Auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi offer the ladoos to Lord Ganesha & receive His Blessings.🙏🌹🌸🙏 Than distribute the Prasadam 🙏 to family, friends & relatives.