Coconut Ladoo

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 3 -3 1/2 cups unsweetened dry coconut powder
• 6 cardamom pods
• 1 tablespoon slivered almonds
• 1 teaspoon clarified butter, divided (ghee)

Recipe

• 1 pour the condensed milk into a heavy saucepan and heat over medium flame for 2 minutes.
• 2 add the coconut powder and stir until the mixture leaves the sides of the pan and becomes sticky.
• 3 turn off heat and let it cool for 5-10 minutes.
• 4 meanwhile, peel the cardmom pods and grind the seeds. if you don't have a mortar and pestle set, just place the seeds between 2 thickly folded pieces of cling wrap and crush it with any flat, reasonably heavy object.
• 5 add the cardamom powder to the coconut mixture and mix well.
• 6 in a small pan, heat half the clarified butter and roast the almonds until golden brown. set aside.
• 7 grease your hands with a little clarified butter from the remaining half and start forming balls with the coconut mixture.
• 8 the ladoos should be roughly the size of golf balls and smoothened between your greased palms.
• 9 decorate each ladoo with a few slivers of the almonds you roasted in step 6.