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Badam ladoo are healthy & delicious ladoos made of almonds, jaggery, nuts & raisins. With the festive season around, thought of sharing this quick badam laddu recipe. These healthy nutrient dense almond ladoo can be one of the best easy diwali sweets that can be prepared in a jiffy. These badam ladoo are made without any additional fats like ghee, oil or even milk.
Badam ladoo are made often at home for my kids school box. I also make so many other healthy ladoo varieties like ragi ladoo, dry fruits ladoos, peanut ladoo & sesame ladoo.
The method I have followed here can easily be adapted to make healthy ladoos using most kind of nuts like peanuts, pista, peanuts, sesame seeds etc. Healthy fats or oils in the nuts help to bind the badam ladoo without adding any ghee or oil.
The best part is they can be made using jaggery and can be a great inclusion in your kids diet especially if they are under weight.
For more Easy ladoo recipes, you can check
Coconut ladoo
Besan ladoo
Dates laddu
Maladu
Rava ladoo
How to make badam ladoo recipe with jaggery
1. Grate the jaggery or coconut palm sugar.
2. Dry roast almonds until aromatic. In the same pan, roast coconut and cardamoms just for 2 mins. Set aside to cool.
3. Powder them in a blender.
4. Add grated jaggery and cardamom powder. I used more cardamom powder.
5. Run the blender until well mixed and the mixer becomes just warm , not hot.
6. Roll the mixture to badam ladoo while the mix is warm.
How to make badam laddu with sugar
1. If making with sugar, set aside the coconut and badam powder. Then powder the sugar. Add back the badam powder.
2. Run the blender.
3. Add the nuts and raisins. Roll the mix to balls when it is warm. You can also add some hot ghee if the mixture doesn’t bind. I did not use ghee. Store badam ladoo in air tight jar.
The sugar ones are very delicate and just break up while eating since there are no added fats to bind the ladoo. But they are great to pop one at a time into your mouth while you are busy. You can add little hot ghee if you wish to.
Tips to make badam ladoo
These can be prepared with any powdered sweetener of your choice like sugar, brown sugar, molasses, palm jaggery , coconut palm jaggery or regular jaggery too.
To make these badam ladoo, you can use blanched almonds or almonds with skin. Almonds are one of my most preferred nuts. Usually I prefer to make my sweet snacks without sugar, ghee and milk as these ingredients do exist in our diet in many other forms.
I made 2 versions of these almond ladoo, one with coconut palm jaggery and the other with sugar. I have used dry coconut (copra) since it is a good source of calcium. It is optional and you can make without coconut too.
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Easy badam ladoo or almond ladoo
Badam ladoo
Badam ladoo are healthy & delicious ladoos made with almonds, jaggery, nuts & raisins. These almond laddus make a great snack not only for toddlers & kids but also for grownups.
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For best results follow the step-by-step photos above the recipe card
Prep Time10 minutes minutes
Cook Time10 minutes minutes
Total Time20 minutes minutes
Servings15
AuthorSwasthi
Ingredients (US cup = 240ml )
- 1 cup almonds (or 1¼ almond flour)
- 1 cup dried coconut or desiccated coconut or copra (optional)
- 1 cup jaggery or ½ cup sugar (adjust to taste)
- 4 to 5 green cardamoms (adjust to preference)
- ½ tbsp raisins (optional)(you can ghee roast them if you wish)
- 1 tbsp roasted nuts (I used ghee roasted pistas)
Instructions
Badam ladoo (using sugar)
Dry roast almonds on a medium flame evenly till you get an aroma. Set this aside to cool.Then dry roast cardamoms and coconut till you get a good aroma. This takes hardly 2 mins. Do not burn or brown it. Set this aside to cool.
Powder almonds, coconut and cardamoms in a mixer. Set this aside.Powder sugar finely. Next add the almond coconut powder.
Run the mixer till the powder becomes warm. The mixture looks oily at this stage. Add the raisins and nuts.
Take small portions of this warm mix and roll them to badam ladoo. If the mix cools up, it will be difficult to roll them, so run the mixer again.
Badam ladoo (using Jaggery or palm sugar or palm jaggery)
Dry roast almonds on a medium heat until you get an aroma. Set them aside to cool.
Next dry roast cardamoms and coconut till you get a good aroma. This takes hardly 2 mins. Do not burn or brown it. Set this aside to cool.
Powder almonds, cardamoms and coconut in a blender.Add jaggery to the powdered almond and coconut powder.Run the mixer till the mixture becomes warm. It looks oily at this stage.
Take small portions of this warm mix and roll them to balls. If the mix cools up, it will be difficult to roll them, so run the mixer again to warm up and then repeat.
Store badam laddu in an airtight jar. Stays good for about 8 to 10 days if handled with moist free hands.
Notes
i doubled the recipe and made 2 batches, one using sugar and other using coconut palm sugar.
Alternative quantities provided in the recipe card are for 1x only, original recipe.
For best results follow my detailed step-by-step photo instructions and tips above the recipe card.
NUTRITION INFO (estimation only)
Nutrition Facts
Badam ladoo
Amount Per Serving
Calories 137Calories from Fat 63
% Daily Value*
Fat 7g11%
Saturated Fat 3g19%
Sodium 5mg0%
Potassium 96mg3%
Carbohydrates 17g6%
Fiber 2g8%
Sugar 14g16%
Protein 2g4%
Vitamin C 0.2mg0%
Calcium 23mg2%
Iron 0.6mg3%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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