Laddus are ball-shaped Indian sweets made from flour, minced dough, or other ingredients combined with sugar or jaggery.
Common Types and Ingredients:
- Besan Laddu: Made with gram flour slow-roasted in ghee (clarified butter) and mixed with powdered sugar (tagar or boora), cardamom powder, and nuts.
- Motichur Laddu: Made from tiny deep-fried spheres (boondi) of besan batter soaked in sugar syrup and shaped into balls.
- Rava Laddu: Prepared from roasted semolina (rava/suji), coconut, sugar, and dry fruits.
- Coconut Laddu: Made with fresh or desiccated coconut, condensed milk or khoya (milk solids), and cardamom.
- Til Gud Laddu: A healthy winter sweet made with roasted sesame seeds (til) and jaggery (gud), often with crushed peanuts or cardamom.
- Dry Fruit Laddu: A sugar-free option where a mixture of chopped nuts, seeds, and dried fruits like dates and figs are bound together.
Variety – Besan, Motichur, Rava, Coconut, Til, Methi, Dink and lot’s more