Groundnut Laddu (NelagaDale UnDe)

NelagaDale UnDe (ನೆಲಗಡಲೆ ಉಂಡೆ)

This is one of the easiest dessert prepared during festivals in my home. Minimal ingredients and maximum taste.

Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Groundnuts 250gm
• Jaggery 250gm
• Dry coconut 1/2 cup

Method

• Roast groundnuts in a thick bottomed kadai/vessel till they begin to splutter.

• Allow it to cool for a while. Remove the peels and split into halves.

• Grind the split ground nuts into a course mixture. Add dry coconut to the ground mix.

• Shrivel jaggery to a vessel and add 0.5 glass of water to it.

• Keep stirring the mix till it caramelizes. (Take a pinch of the mix and drop into water. The mix will settle at bottom and not dissolve). That's the right temperature of caramel mix. 

• Pour the caramelized mix to groundnut+coconut mix. Mix swiftly. Tie the mix into a laddu. 

Tips:

• Use ghee/mix if you have trouble in tying the laddu.
• Once caramel mix is mixed with groundnut mix, it starts to solidify really fast. So pour caramel mix in batches. 
• Groundnut is powdered to coarse mix as its easy to tie course mix to laddu than the whole nuts.