It is essential for adults and children to choose healthy snacks over fast food. Due to the lifestyle we choose or are forced to live with, we mostly prefer buying packaged food to save our time. While these packaged food are highly advertised as ‘healthy’ and ‘organic’, they are still prepared using preservatives. One of the healthiest snacks for adults and children alike is Peanut Ladoo.
Most people buy roasted, salted, or spiced peanuts, however, peanuts taste even better in the form of ladoo. Especially, when they are made at home. Peanut ladoo is very easy to makeand requires justtwo main ingredients. It is a perfect healthy snack for kids one that can be packed to school. However, Peanuts are one of the allergen foods. Before offering it to someone, it is recommended to check if they are tolerant to peanuts.
This Peanut Ladoo Recipe stores well. You can store it in a storage container and eat later, and it will still taste as delicious as freshly prepared.
Health Benefits
Peanuts are an excellent source of protein and one of the best worlds healthiestand weight gaining food for growing kids. It is an excellent source of biotin, full of heart-healthy monounsaturated fats and antioxidants. It can also protect you against gallstones.
Jaggery is filled with antioxidants too and minerals like zinc and selenium, which help prevent free-radicals (responsible for early aging). It helps to detox andcleanses the liver by flushing out unwanted toxins from the body.
Ingredients
powdered Jaggery: 500 g
green cardamom: 10
roasted peanuts: 500 g
How To Make Peanut Ladoo Recipe
- Take raw peanuts and dry roast them in a frying pan for 5 minutes.
- Remove and allow it to cool down.
- Once cooled, gently rub them to remove the skins.
- Take a heavy bottomed pan. Heat a little water. Add the jaggery powder and stir until it is fully dissolved.
- Lower the flame for a few minutes until you notice small bubbles.Allow the mixture mustto become thick. Lower the flame.
- Add the peanuts and cardamoms. Remove from flame and allow the mixture to cool
- Once the mixture is cool enough to handle, make small balls and place them on a greased plate. Allow it to cool completely.
- Store them in an airtight container.
- You can store peanut ladoos for 10 to 15 days.
Trivia
- There are plenty of peanuts in one acre to make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.
- Peanuts are not actually a nut.The peanut is closely related to a bean or a pea than it is to an actual nut.