Churma Ladoo Recipe, Gujarati Churma Laddu
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Gujarati
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Serves: 5
 
Churma Ladoo Recipe: A traditional Indian dessert dish made from Whole wheat flour, Ghee and Jaggery; garnished with poppy seeds (khas khas).
Ingredients
  • Wheat flour: 1 1/2 cup coarsely grounded
  • Besan: 1/4 cup
  • Rava / Sooji: 1/4 cup
  • Oil: 1 1/2 tbsp
  • Water: 1/2 cup
  • Ghee: 1/4 cup
  • Oil: 2 cup for frying
  • Jaggery: 1/3 cup
  • Powdered sugar: 1 1/2 tbsp
  • Nutmeg: 1/8 tsp
  • Poppy seeds: 1 tsp for garnish
  • Kismis: 1 tbsp
Instructions
To make Churma Mixture
  1. In a large mixing bowl take whole wheat flour (coarsely grounded), besan (chickpea flour) and sooji / rava.
  2. Add 1 and 1/2 tbsp Oil and 1/2 cup warm water.
  3. Combine all ingredients and knead into dough.
  4. Now take a portion of wheat flour dough in hand and press it by making fist. Press hard and make Muthia shapes from dough.
  5. Repeat the process for remaining wheat flour dough and make muthia. Keep aside.
  6. Now to fry the muthia heat Oil in a deep bottom frying pan. Heat on medium flame and don't let Oil turn too hot.
  7. Deep fry the wheat flour muthia in oil for 4 to 5 minutes. Till it is completely cooked from inside and turn golden brown.
  8. Take out the fried muthias and drain the excess oil on kitchen towel / paper napkin. Let the muthias cool down.
  9. Cut the muthias into pieces and further grind them in a food processor into fine powder. Sieve through a fine siever to remove big chunks.Re-grind the remaining chunks if required.
To make Churma Ladoo
  1. Take a nutmeg and pound in a mortar and pestle. Add the nutmeg powder in Churma mixture.
  2. Optionally you can also add dry fruits like kismis. This is however optional.
  3. Now melt ghee in a pan and add Jaggery. As soon as Jaggery starts floating on ghee, turn off the gas.
  4. Pour the melted jaggery and ghee into Churma mixture. Add powdered sugar. Again sugar is optional.
  5. Combine all the ingredients and make nice aromatic churma mixture.
  6. Now make Churma laddus from churma by pressing it in a laddu mold. You can also make ladoo by taking a portion of churma and rolling in hands and making nice spherical balls.
  7. Repeat the process and make ladoos from remaining mixture.
  8. Apply some poppy seeds (khas khas) and garnish the churma ladoo.
  9. Churma ladoo is ready to serve.
Recipe by WeRecipes at https://werecipes.com/churma-ladoo-recipe-churma-ladva/