Puffed Rice Ladoo

Ingredients 

• 2 cups Puffed rice) (½ cup more can be added if you want the ladoos to be medium sweet)
• 1  cup grated jaggery 
• 2 tbsp of water
• 2  tbsp peanuts unsalted , roasted and skin removed (optional)
• 2 tbsp channa - dal (marathi : phutane) (optional)
• 1/2 tspn cardamom powder
• 1 tsp ghee (optional)

Method 

1. Heat jaggery in a pan and let it melt.  Let the heat be medium after the jaggery has melted as it will get burnt easily.
2. Take water in a bowl. Once the jaggery has become frothy, add a drop of the jaggery in the bowl of water. The jaggery should sit like a drop, it should not get mixed with water. This is the indication that the jaggery is cooked to the required consistency.
3. Turn off the heat
4. Add the puffed rice, peanuts, channa dal and cardamom powder and mix well.
5.  Let it cool slightly.
6. Coat your hands with very little water/ghee and roll it into ladoos ( balls).

Tip:

• The puffed rice and jaggery mixture cools down rapidly. The mixture will not roll into ladoos  once it cools down completely. If you are unable to roll the entire mixture into balls and it has hardened try heating the mixture on very low flame and then make the ladoos.
• Puffed rice is called by various names like marathi : chirmure, Hindi: kurmura