Moong Dal Ladoo | Payatham Paruppu Laddu | Diwali Sweets

Moong Dal Ladoo | Payatham Paruppu Laddu | Diwali Sweets

Moong dal ladoo, a quick and easy dessert made with less than 5 ingredients. This simple dessert takes less time and effort, and spot on the taste.

Course Dessert

Cuisine Indian, South-Indian

Keyword Dessert with less than 5 ingredients, Easy diwali sweet recipe, easy ladoo recipe, How to make laddu with moong dal, How to make payatham paruppu laddoo, Moong dal recipe, Payatham urundai recipe, Quick laddu

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Total Time 20

Servings people

Calories 67kcal

Equipment

Heavy bottom pan for roasting

Ingredients

½ cup moong dal flour Store-bought
6 tablespoon powdered sugar you can also use grated jaggery
⅓ cup melted ghee
¼ teaspoon cardamom powder
3 tablespoon of chopped nuts i used a combo of Pistachios and toasted coconut

Instructions

Measure the store bought moong dal flour, sieve it well to a get free flowing, lump free flour.
Heat a heavy bottom pan, add 1 tbsp of ghee to it. When the ghee melts, add the flour, roast it in a low flame, until it changes to golden color and nice aroma emanates. Take care not to over-roast or burn it.
If you are adding desiccated coconut to the ladoo, then add it to the hot flour and turn off the stove. The coconut will get nice and toasty in the residue heat.
Transfer the toasted flour to a flat plate. Let it cool down well.
Now to this toasted and cooled flour, add powdered sugar, cardamom powder and chopped nuts, mix well to get a well combined mixture. (see notes)
Add a teaspoon of ghee at time to this mixture and gather it to form a ball/ladoo. Arrange it on a flat plate. Repeat the same with the rest of the mixture.
To the above measurements i got about 18 ladoos of the size of a ping-pong ball.If you make it slightly bigger, you might get about 12-15 ladoos

Notes

You can replace the powdered sugar in the recipe with grated jaggery.
If replacing with granulated sugar or jaggery, then take the cool down flour along with jaggery or granulated sugar in a mixer, pulse grind it to get a uniform mixture. Then transfer it to a flat plate and proceed to add ghee and make ladoos.
if planning to make this vegan, you can use any nut butter. If using nut butter, then add that too to the mixer, pulse grind to get a combined mixture then proceed to make ladoos.

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