Atta Laddu | Wheat Ladoo » Dassana’s Veg Recipes

Entire wheat flour is a flexible ingredient. The proof of the pudding lies in the truth that it may be used to make dishes, starting from savory/salty to candy. Identical to this Atta Laddu or Atta Ladoo, which is made with entire wheat flour and simply 2 extra elements. These scrumptious Wheat Ladoo recipe is simple and will get made shortly. Fairly the change that you just generally want out of your different common Ladoo.

About Wheat Ladoo

There are some recipes that you just be taught whereas rising up and a few later in life. Although, this Atta Ladoo recipe falls within the latter class, it has grown on me like none different. I can simply say that this Atta Laddu is one in every of my most most well-liked ones now.

I learnt to make Atta Ke Laddu from my mother-in-law. This candy is primarily a Punjabi/North Indian specialty. Thus, is a winter favourite. Going by the identical pattern, my mother-in-law would additionally make 1 to 2 kgs of those yummy ladoo for the entire household.  

Through the numbing chilly months in North India, the warmth from shaping the recent ladoo combination, was once warming and comforting to the fingers. Therefore, it was a yearly ritual within the very Punjabi family, each winter season.

Although Maharashtra and close by areas will not be that chilly, I nonetheless make the country Atta Ke Laddu at house. Ladoo made with flours are simpler to make at house. And so have been these Atta Laddu. These filling ladoo made with simply atta, sugar and ghee will not be solely good throughout winters, but additionally appropriate in monsoons.

Atta Laddu makes for an superior snack for teenagers and adults alike. It is usually apt for festive events, the place the recipe may be doubled or tripled with a view to make an enormous batch. The one tiring and time taking factor can be to roast the entire wheat flour in a large amount.

Remember that these laddu are made with ‘atta’ which is entire wheat flour that’s used to make Indian flatbreads like roti, chapati and paratha. Atta is finely floor entire wheat flour constituted of mushy to medium exhausting wheat grains. Not like the entire wheat flour (accessible outdoors India) milled in steel rollers, atta is usually stone milled.

This recipe works with atta and I believe also needs to work with the entire wheat flour that’s made and bought outdoors India.

Step-by-Step Information

Methods to make Atta Laddu

Powder Sugar

1. Take ⅓ cup sugar in a dry grinder or a small blender.

2. Grind to a nice powder and preserve apart.

Roast Entire Wheat Flour

3. Take 1 cup entire wheat flour (atta) in a kadai or a broad thick bottomed pan.

4. Hold the pan on a low to medium-low warmth or sim and start to roast the entire wheat flour.

5. Stir repeatedly and continuous whereas roasting the flour so that there’s even roasting and browning.

6. Roast until the colour modifications and also you get a nutty aroma from the entire wheat flour. About 7 to 10 minutes on low warmth.

Timing will fluctuate with the fabric, dimension and thickness of the pan. I used a metal kadai and not using a thick bottomed base. Thus, it took me 7 minutes to roast the flour.

Make Atta Ladoo

7. Then, add ⅓ cup ghee within the flour.

8. Start to combine very properly.

9. Carry on stirring and roasting this combination for 3 to five minutes extra. Once more, right here the timing will fluctuate with the fabric, dimension and thickness of the pan.

It took me 4 minutes to get the roasting carried out at this step, as a result of metal kadai I used.

10. Test the style of the entire wheat flour, it ought to really feel cooked. There must be no rawness.

11. Change off the warmth, take away the pan from stovetop and place it on the kitchen countertop. Add the powdered sugar.

12. Add 1 tablespoon raisins and blend properly with a spoon or spatula.

13. Break the sugar lumps, if any, within the combination with the spatula or spoon.

14. The sugar must be blended totally within the flour-ghee combination.

15. When the combination continues to be sizzling and the warmth is tolerable, take a heaped portion of it in a spoon.

16. Use this portion to form right into a ladoo or small to medium-sized spherical ball. If the warmth is just not tolerable, then anticipate some minutes. Don’t burn your fingers.

17. Equally, make medium dimension ladoo from the remaining combination.

In case, you aren’t in a position to kind neat spherical balls and combination is crumbling, then add a couple of extra tablespoons of heat ghee. Combine properly after which proceed to make the spherical balls.

18. As soon as carried out, retailer them in an air-tight field or jar. These keep good for a month in winters. However in sizzling climate, you’ll should refrigerate them. Serve Atta Laddu as a candy snack.

Extra With Atta

With regards to a multipurpose use, entire wheat flour or atta stands true to it. For example, most our common Indian flatbreads like paratha, chapati, roti or phulka are atta primarily based. Together with these, there are numerous different recipes which characteristic it as an integral half.

And never simply salty or savory, the numerous record of candy dishes or desserts that may be made with atta is kind of spectacular too. One instance is that this Atta Laddu and the very satisfying candy of Atta Halwa, which is loaded with cashews too.

These are among the different candy recipes with entire wheat flour that I usually make at house – Atta Cake, Panjiri (a standard Punjabi grainy-textured candy dish, additionally a standard providing in Krishna Janmashtami bhog) and Kada Prashad (the quintessential velvety, wealthy halwa served in Gurudwaras all around the world).

Skilled Ideas

1. At house, I normally use ‘khand’ or ‘khandsari,’ which is Indian uncooked sugar for ladoo. When utilizing uncooked sugar, I powder it first after which add to the ladoo. Although, you possibly can even make them with common powdered sugar or confectioner’s sugar.  
2. Raisins is my alternative of dry fruit which works on this Wheat Ladoo. You can too use almonds. When utilizing these, first roast them individually, then chop and add.
3. Additional flavorings like cardamom powder, and many others. is just not required in Wheat Laddu. The nutty aroma of the roasted entire wheat flour is sufficient to make it completely pleasant.
4. Whereas growing the portions, add extra ghee if wanted.

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This Atta Laddu recipe from the archives first printed in July 2016 has been republished and up to date on 6 July 2022.