Besan and oats ladoo

Besan And Oats Ladoo

Diwali is the festival of light, colour, sweets and crackers. This festival is celebrated in the month of November. It is originally celebrated to welcome prabhu Sri Ram from forest exile (vana basa). Diwali is my favorite festival. I used to celebrate it with my friends as we stay away from my native.

This diwali is also no difference from others, so lots of sweets will be prepared by me. I started my diwali celebration with besan and oats ladoo. This dish is the combination of two healthy ingredients, besan and oats. Besan or gram flour is pulse flour made from ground chickpeas. It can be used raw or roasted. Raw one is bit bitter taste but roasted one is very flavorful.

Oats is another healthy ingredient of the dish. Rolled oats are used to make porridge and in baking and other cereal like muesli and granola. But in india people started adding oats to their traditional dishes.

Here is the recipe

Besan- 2 cups

Oats-1 cup+ 4 to 5 tbsp

Sugar- 4 to 5 tbsp (depends on the sweet taste)

Cardamom- 3 to 4

Magaz (melon seeds) - 4 to 5 tbsp

Ghee- 4 to 5 tbsp

Take a heavy button pan, add besan to eat and dry roast it properly in low flame. After 5 to 6 mins a smoothing smell will come from the besan. Fry for some more mins. Switch off the gas and keep aside.

In the same pan add oats and dry roast for 5 to 6 min on low flame. Don’t change the colour of the oats. Switch off the gas and let it cool down. Once it comes down to normal temperature make a coarse powder.

Deseed the cardamom pods and make powder,

Dry roast the magaz or melon seeds and keep aside.

In a big plate add roasted besan and crushed oats together. Before mixing, reserve 4 to 5 tbsp of crushed oats aside. Then add powdered sugar, cardamom powder and magaz to it. And mix again. Now add ghee to it one spoon at a time and mix. After mixing of one spoon of ghee try to make ladoos. If ladoo formed then don’t add ghee any more. If not then again one more spoon of gh. I used 4 to 5 tbsp of ghee to make. But sometime more or less may be needed. Roll the ladoos on the crushed oats and place on the plates.

Now ladoo is ready to be served to the guest. It can be used as gifting purpose.