My 320th recipe, "Coconut Ladoo", a quick, easy and delicious Indian Sweet. Coconut cooked in milk and sugar until reduced to a delicious consistency and then flavored with cardamom and ghee.
Yeah I know today is not a special occasion or any festive day for making an Indian Sweet. But frankly who needs a reason to enjoy a delicious Indian Sweet. Even though I make Western desserts like Pies, Cinnamon rolls, etc. on a regular basic, my heart is always with a well made Indian Sweet. The one which is loaded with lots of sweetness, flavor, richness and love.
These days, RK has made it a habit to ask for dessert soon after he finishes lunch. Since we have a big sweet tooth, I tend to always stock up my pantry or refrigerator with candies and chocolates. Most of the times RK will be just be fine munching on one or two of those. However there are days where he asks me to make a more wholesome dessert for him, preferably an Indian Sweet.
This Coconut Ladoo recipe was born on one such day when he was pestering me for a dessert. I was already tried after making an elaborate meal for lunch. Also, since it was Friday I was almost out of my weekly rations and did not have a lot of ingredients to work with. I wanted to make something with is easy to make and with basic ingredient. I quickly saw the left over half a shell of coconut and decided to make an easy dessert out of it.
Usually, when I have left over coconut, I make a delicious Coconut burfi with it. However, that burfi is not one of RK's favorite. So I decided to twist that recipe a bit and make it even more rich and delicious. Instead of adding coconut to a sugar syrup, I decided to cook it with dairy. I was confident that adding milk will give this dessert a newer taste profile and would excite RK better than the simple coconut burfi. And it indeed turned out to be a grand success.
Today being a Friday again, I decided make another batch of the coconut ladoo for dessert. Unlike the burfi, the addition of milk in this coconut ladoo, gives it a softer texture. All you have to do is drop a ladoo into your mouth. And then it is effortlessly disintegrates and melts in your mouth. Also, the ghee and cardamom flavors the ladoo aptly so that you would want to return quickly to grab a second ladoo. And the final touch comes from the coating of the coconut on top of the ladoos. It elevates the simple coconut ladoo into something much more elegant 🙂
Coconut Ladoo
Coconut Ladoo
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Ingredients
- 1 ⅓ Cups Desiccated Coconut (extra for coating)
- ¾ Cup Milk
- ⅓ Cup Sugar
- 2 tsp Ghee
- ⅛ tsp Cardamom powder
Instructions
- First take a large pan and saute the coconut until it is slightly warm to touch. This basically removes excess moisture from the coconut. But take care to not change the color of the coconut.
- Now add the milk and sugar and mix well. Stir at regular intervals and Continue to cook in medium low flame until the mixture becomes dry.
- Now add the ghee and give a quick mix. Add the cardamom powder and mix well. Cook until the mixture turns slightly sticky starts to bind with itself.
- Turn off the flame and let it cool down until it is cold enough to touch. Grease your palm with more ghee and roll out the coconut mixture into balls. Roll the coconut ladoos into some more desiccated coconut. Leave it to cool completely to room temperature.
- Enjoy.
Dr neha says
Ur recipe turned out really really good.
I had to make almost 100 laddoos last year for ganesh chaturthi for prashad for the entire apartment.
I came across this recipe and made likewise and o oh...everyone loved it
This year again
..though because of covid...its not a public affair...but I wanted to make them again...so searched the net again as I forgot the proportions..
I went thru so many other recipes but I still wanted this one and had no clue about the site and any other details....
After a lot of search what made me hit the right page was ur blue bowl with the laddoos...and hushhhhh....it was it....
Really happy .....many recipes with the same ingredients but just wanna try this same all years to come...
Thanks a ton...
And sorry for this long long write up...
But it was a happy end ordeal for me.????
revifood says
Thank you for trying the recipe...and Happy to hear that everyone liked it...Neha
Ganesh says
I..work on cruise ship and not much in to Indian desert's ..one small group Indian passengers came on board and asked for Indian desert's....max 15 min..so I googled and..thnx for uploading this ...saved my day..
Swathi pavithrakumar says
Awesome recipe dear revathi..my kids loved it thank u so much ????
revifood says
thanks Swathi, happy to hear that your kids loved it 🙂