Malida and Malida ladoos Recipe
Malida or Maleeda is a popular traditional sweet confection made with whole wheat flour dough crumbled, sweetened and flavoured with cardamom and dry fruits
Ingredients
- 250 grams Whole wheat flour 2 cups
- 50 grams Semolina medium size (Rava) ½ cup
- 1 tablespoon Ghee (clarified butter)
- ½ teaspoon Salt as per taste
- ½ cup Water or milk more or less as per need for making dough
- ½ cup Chopped nuts Cashew nut , Almonds, Pistachio, any type of nuts
- 1 tablespoon Raisins
- 1 tablespoon Roasted chana dal (split chickpeas)
- 100 grams Grated coconut 1 cup
- 1 teaspoon Cardamom powder
- ½ teaspoon Saunf powder (fennel seeds powder)
- 150 grams Shredded jaggery 1 cup
- 1 teaspoon Salt as per taste
Instructions
- How to prepare Malida recipe:
- First make dough using wheat flour, rava, Ghee, and milk or water. Leave this dough for 15 minutes. After that make medium size dough ball.
- Make normal size chapati as you make, but with lots of ghee.
- There is no need for chapatis size should be round because we have to crumble it for making malida.
- Further, in a kadhai heat ½ tablespoon ghee and roast all the ingredients and keep aside.
- When chapatis cooled, crush them with your hands or using a mixer
- But don't grind fine. Roughly grind chapatis in a mixer.
- Now add all the ingredients like cardamom powder, saunf powder, grated coconut, chopped dry fruits, raisins, shredded jaggery, chana dal to ground chapatis in a large bowl.
- Mix everything and yes your Malida is ready to serve.
Malida ladoos Recipe:
- First, make malida as above steps.
- Binding malida ladoos is very simple no need to add anything into malida for making ladoos but if you use less jaggery in malida it makes it a little bit difficult to bind ladoos. Then you can make jaggery syrup and add it. (melt 1 teaspoon jaggery into 1 tablespoons water)
- When it's cool down then add it into malida and also add 1 tablespoon ghee.
- Mix it well in malida. and start making medium size balls (ladoo).
- Finally, your Malida ladoos are ready to serve.
Notes
Notes:
- Chapatis must be thick for better taste.
- You can use your choice of dry fruits in malida.
- Must roast or fry dry fruits.