Rajgira Laddu Recipe with Jaggery
Rajgira Laddu Recipe made from puffed rajgira seeds and melted jaggery. Rajgira laddu recipe or Amaranth Ladoo is very easy and delicious sweet recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Rajgira/Amaranth Seeds
- 2 Cups Jaggery
Instructions
Roasting Rajgira seeds:
- Heat a thick bottom pan.
- Dry roast rajgira seeds in small batches.
- Add a spoon of rajgira seeds and slowly roast them till they puff up.
- They all puff up and turn into white.
- Keep them aside and repeat the same with all the seeds.
- Once done with all of them, sieve them using thin plate.
- We can make use of the un-puffed seeds later.
- Keep them aside.
Making Jaggery syrup:
- Add jaggery in a thick bottom pan.
- Add little water and keep stirring.
- If found any dust particles, sieve the melted jaggery .
- Again add it to the pan and keep stirring till it reaches single string.
- Check it while taking the syrup on to the ladle and touch with the index finger.
- If it is forming into a single string then the jaggery syrup is ready.
Making Rajgira Laddu
- Lower the flame and add the rajgira seeds.
- Combine them well and switch off the flame.
- Add a spoon of ghee and mix well.
- Transfer the entire mixture into a bowl.
- Wet your hands, and make laddus.
- Be careful while handling, as the mixture would be very hot.
- Make laddus of your desirable size.
- Serve Rajgira laddu whenever you feel like.
Notes
Roast the rajgira seeds in small batches, otherwise they would not puff properly.
We can use sieved rajgira seeds in making kheer or dry fruit laddus.
Melt jaggery well and make sure it would reach single string consistency.
Make laddus as fast as possible do not let the mixture cools down.