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 checkCoconut ladooBesan ladooDates ladduMaladuRava ladoo
How to make badam ladoo recipe with jaggery
- Grate the jaggery or coconut palm sugar.
- Dry roast almonds until aromatic. In the same pan, roast coconut and cardamoms just for 2 mins. Set aside to cool.
- Powder them in a blender.
- Add grated jaggery and cardamom powder. I used more cardamom powder.
- Run the blender until well mixed and the mixer becomes just warm , not hot.
- Roll the mixture to badam ladoo while the mix is warm.
How to make badam laddu with sugar
- If making with sugar, set aside the coconut and badam powder. Then powder the sugar. Add back the badam powder.
- Run the blender.
- 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. Related Recipes