Charmuri laddoos are a really pop snack dorsum home. I used to beloved it every bit a child. Now I definitely larn inwards atleast 1 time a year, specially during festival season. It's unproblematic together with slow to make, healthy, a nifty origin of quick liberate energy together with the kids beloved it! Charmuri is aught simply puffed rice besides known every bit rice crispies hither inwards the US.
Servings: makes around 16-20 large laddoos
Ingredients:
Jaggery: 1 cup
Puffed Rice : four cups
Cardamom powder: 1/4tsp
Water: 1/4 cup
Method:
Dry roast the puffed rice until crispy, to a greater extent than or less 5-10 mins together with operate along aside inwards an airtight container.
Heat jaggery together with H2O inwards a pot until the jaggery is completely melted together with liquid. Now plough off the heat, permit it settle for v mins. Gently pour the molten jaggery into a thick-bottomed pot, leaving behind whatever sandy residue.
Heat the molten jaggery on medium flaming until it thickens together with is viscous when attempting to choice to pour from a spoon.
Add the cardamom powder. Now mix inwards the toasted puffed rice piffling at a time, mixing it good each fourth dimension yous add together inwards ensuring that all the puffed rice is evenly coated amongst jaggery syrup.
Grease your palms amongst butter/ghee. Take tablespoonful of the hot puffed-rice- jaggery mixture together with sort it into balls of desired size. If the mixture cools down, yous volition non endure able to sort it into balls.
Store inwards an air-tight container.
Stays fresh at room-temperature for upto a month.
Enjoy!
Cooking made easy:
While making laddoos, if yous honor that yous are non able to sort it into a ball inspite of the proficient stringiness together with stickiness of the jaggery, therefore warm the dish a little, the jaggery volition melt together with endure viscous 1 time more!
It is much easier to brand large laddoos than small-scale ones every bit these laddoos are really light.
Tip for salubrious living:
Puffed rice makes for a nifty snack every bit it is light, depression inwards calories , nut-free and gluten-free.
Snacking is a nifty habit every bit long every bit the snacks are healthy. One should swallow several small-scale meals a 24-hour interval rather than 2-3 large heavy meals. Eating small-scale portions oft keeps the metabolism going together with besides keeps us from binging!
References:
http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/benefits-snacking-2874.html
http://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/meal-planning/healthy-snacking-benefits.aspx
http://www.livestrong.com/article/392588-why-are-healthy-snacks-important/
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