Sesame and mawa ke ladoo, a combination of earthy sesame and sweet mawa, beautifully flavored with a pinch of saffron and punchy cardamom. A sweet, perfect to celebrate any special occassion. I chose Festival theme for this BM, with Holi in mind, i m making some quick treats to share with your friends and enjoy this joyous colorful festival.
If you read my Sesame and nuts ladoo, you must have known my love for ladoos, i have around 25 ladoo recipes in my kitchen. This one too, joins that band of quickie recipes. Today's recipe took just 15 minutes to make and i took more time to click them and was resisting myself from nibbling everytime i re-arranged it for a better click.
Unsweetened mawa renders that rich and royal taste and texture this cute ball needs to be called as a festive treat. A wonderful gift for your friends and family. For those who are particular about hand-made edible gifts and are not ready to sweat in the kitchen, this recipe is a perfect choice. Go on, try it and let me know how you liked it.
Ingredients
125 grams white sesame seeds
125 grams mawa/unsweetened khoa/Milk solids
a generous pinch of saffron
4 pods of cardamom
⅓ cup of sugar
20 grams of cashewnuts, roasted and chopped roughly
3 tablespoon of silvered pisatchios, roated
2-3 teaspoon ghee
Method
- In a wide pan, take the sesame seeds and dry roast in a medium flame. The seeds must get nice and toasty. Keep the flame simmer while roasting. Take care not to burn them. Remove the roasted seasame seeds into a flat plate.
- Take the roasted sesame seeds in a mixer, add cardamom pods and sugar to ti and pulse it to powder.
- Heat a wide pan,heat a teaspoon of ghee and roast the cashewnuts until golden brown, once done, remove it from the pan and set aside until use. In the same pan, roast the silvered pistachios for 30 seconds and remove it along with cashewnuts.
- Now in the same pan,add another teaspoon of ghee, add crumbled mawa and saffron to it and saute until it turns golden. Keep the flame simmer and keep stirring or else the mawa would stick to the pan and burn. This will take around 5-8 minutes.
- Once the mawa turns golden brown, take it off the stove, add the sesame-sugar mix to this. Add the chopped cashewnuts and pistachios too and mix it well with your hands. Mawa would be still hot, so take care while mixing with hands.
- While the mixture is still warm, coat your hands with little ghee and start making small balls out of the mixture. Enjoy your til mawa ladoo garama garam.
- The ladoos are done, store it in an air-tight container in the refrigerator. Since it contains milk, i prefer to store it in the fridge.
Srivalli
Priya somehow I thought you were doing the laddo theme only to realize thats not this month!..your laddos are looking so inviting...
Priya Suresh
Few days back i dished out some besan laddoos with mawa, omg, am gonna try this sesame mawa laddoos..
Sandhiya
Another delicious ladoo with sesame seed . Love the combination of sesame & mawa, the pictures are very catchy and really love the background like peacock feathers, what is it??
MySpicyKitchen
Valli, looking the dishes Priya came up for this week, was going tell I know what to expect next month 🙂 . Laddos have come out so good Priya and looking forward for more next month.
Jayashree
Beautiful clicks, Priya. I can't take my eyes off your pics.
cookingwithsapana
My aunt used to make these mawa til laddo and they were always so tempting. Love the gorgeous setup Priya.
Pavani
Love the addition of mawa to make these laddoo Priya. They look so rich and decadent. Lovely clicks.
Harini R
Very interesting use of mawa and sesame together. Loving the clicks.
Padmajha
Very interesting recipe Priya! Love the addition of sesame seeds and mawa. Super tempting clicks.
sushma
I make sesame ladoo with jaggery. Adding mawa sounds interesting, must try dish.
Sandhya Ramakrishnan
What a lovely ladoo with sesame and mawa. That would have been so delicious.
vaishali sabnani
Til and mawa is a classic combo..bookmarked the lado. Winter is over, so will wait to make it some time later, have fallen for this ladoo , looks fantastic.
Mayuri Patel
An intersting recipe Priya. I've not tried making sesame seeds and mawa combined ladoos. They look really good... bookmarking this recipe.
Chef Mireille
with the mawa must have such a rich and creamy taste and constency for sure