Healthy thinai rava laddu made with foxtail millet and wheat rava. A delicious, less sugary Indian sweet perfect for festivals and guilt-free snacking
Course Dessert, Festive food, Snack
Cuisine Indian, South-Indian
Keyword Easy laddu recipe, Easy millet ladoo recipe, How to make rava ladoo, How to make thinai laddu, Millet laddu
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 20 minutesminutes
Total Time 35 minutesminutes
Servings 12
Calories 175kcal
Equipment
Indian style mixie or any heavy blender
Ingredients
½cupThinai/foxtail millet/தினை
½cupWheat Rava/Lapsi/ கோதுமை ரவை
¾cupsugar
⅛teaspoonclove powderor powder 2 whole cloves together
1teaspooncardamom powder
½cupmelted ghee
2tablespoonroasted & chopped mixed nutsalmonds n cashewnuts
Instructions
Dry roast Thinai/foxtail millet and wheat rava separately until warm and aromatic. Keep aside and let them cool.
Take care while dry roasting. Keep the flame medium, stay close and roast. If the grains burn, it will affect taste of the laddu.
Grind them separately to a fine powder. Transfer the fine powder to a flat plate.
Raosting & grinding has to be done separately. This ensures fine powder. Coarse bits of rava or millet will not taste good in the laddu. So make sure you roast and grind the ingredients separately.
Take sugar and clove together and powder it to fine. If you are using whole cardamoms you can grind them together.
Add this powdered sugar to the powdered thina/foxtail millet and wheat rava. Mix them well together. Add roasted nuts to this mixture. Mix well.
Let's Make Laddu's
Add a teaspoon or two of ghee to this mixture, grab a fistful of flour mix and start making balls, by shaping it tightly in your fist. Once it holds shape, keep it separately in a flat plate. Repeat the same with the remaining flour mix.
Store in an air-tight container on the kitchen-top.
These quick and easy millet ladoo stays good on the kitchen counter for a day or two.
If you are living in a hot and humid climate, i would suggest refrigerating.
Notes
Roasting and Powdering should be done separately for the millet and sooji.
If you do not want to use ghee for making the ladoo's, you can use milk. But the shelf life would be very less and must definitely be refrigerated.
You can even roll the ladoo'si in dessicated coconut of more nuts for an extra oomph and richness.