Raagi Laadu:(version 2)

Ingredients:

Raagi flour/finger millet- 1 cup
Dry Ground nut/peanuts 1/2 cup
Dry grated coconut 1/4 cup
Brown/black sesame seeds 2 -4 spoons
Jaggery/brown sugar 3/4 cup
Cardamom powder 1 spoon
Ghee for smearing.

Method:

Prepare a thick dough using limited warm water to the flour. Make equal parts out of it(small roundels…4 inch size) flatten them into thin fritters(over wet cloth….mounted on inverted plate).

Sun dry these fritters or roast on tawa/skillet using less oil or even deep fry them in hot oil. Whichever you. Then cool them.

Make them into bits. Powder them in a blender.

Transfer this powder in a large bowl.

Now in a separate pan….heat jaggerry/brown sugar. Make a thick syrup out of it.

Roast peanuts in a pan and grate them too.

Mix grated peanut, grated dry coconut, sesame seeds, cardamom powder with the flour prepared. Run the jaggerry syrup over this. Make a dough dough. Now make equal parts out of it. Using ghee smeared hands….make small 2-4 inch size balls out of this dough. Set them to cool on ghee smeared plate.