Coconut Ladoo Food

EASY COCONUT LADOO

Steps:

• Place 2 cups coconut into a pan and heat over low heat until lightly toasted, making sure not to burn or change color, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Bring a pot of water to a boil over high heat. Place unopened can of condensed milk into the middle of the pot; boil for 3 to 4 minutes. Remove using tongs; let cool slightly, about 5 minutes. Pour into coconut and add cardamom and vanilla extract. Mix well. Let cool enough to handle, about 5 minutes.
• Form mixture into small balls using oiled hands, as mixture will be very sticky, adding semolina as needed if very wet and runny.
• Place remaining coconut into a shallow bowl or on a plate. Roll ladoos in coconut and serve.

COCONUT LADOO

Steps:

• Pour the condensed milk into a heavy saucepan and heat over medium flame for 2 minutes.
• Add the coconut powder and stir until the mixture leaves the sides of the pan and becomes sticky.
• Turn off heat and let it cool for 5-10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, peel the cardmom pods and grind the seeds. If you don't have a mortar and pestle set, just place the seeds between 2 thickly folded pieces of cling wrap and crush it with any flat, reasonably heavy object.
• Add the cardamom powder to the coconut mixture and mix well.
• In a small pan, heat half the clarified butter and roast the almonds until golden brown. Set aside.
• Grease your hands with a little clarified butter from the remaining half and start forming balls with the coconut mixture.
• The ladoos should be roughly the size of golf balls and smoothened between your greased palms.
• Decorate each ladoo with a few slivers of the almonds you roasted in step 6.

COCONUT BANANA LADOO

Steps:

• Bring the milk to a boil.
• Keep stirring on low flame till it is reduced to half the quantity.
• Heat ghee in a wok.
• Add sugar.
• Reduce the flame when sugar melts.
• Add the grated coconut and keep stirring it.
• Add the thickened milk and stir till the mixture leaves the sides of the wok.
• When cool, roll the mixture into ladoos (small round balls).
• Serve!