Antina unde || Antina ladoo || antu laddu is very delicious, super healthy ladoo's. These ladoo's are prepared using antu- edible gum as main ingredient. In Hindi we call antu as gondh, these ladoo's are mainly prepared for Post pregnancy ladies in many houses. These ladoo's are also good for kids and everyone can have these ladoo's regularly, as it contains dry fruits, dates, jaggery along with edible gum. As I am giving these ladoo's to my son Riddhesh (who is 1.7 old now) I coarsely powdered dry fruits otherwise we can use roughly chopped nuts. For authentic antina ladoo we use dry dates which gives good shelf life to ladoo's. I used normal dates and jaggery for sweetness.
Event : Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge
Taking this healthy ladoo's to shhhhh secretly cooking challange, this month theme "post pregnancy food" was suggested by me. I am paired with Renu who blogs at "cookwithrenu" do check out her space for healthy & tasty recipes. She gave me poppy seeds and jaggery as secret ingredients,in turn I gave her dates and milk as secret ingredients. Renu prepared healthy and tasty khajoor dudh, do check out her space.
Antina ladoo
Serves : 25+ ladoo's approximately
Category : Sweets
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Main ingredients : edible gum
Ingredients
Dates - 100gms
Cashew nuts - 1 cups
Almonds - 1 cups
Pistachio -1/2 cup
Raisins - 1/2 cup ( optional)
Edible gum - 100gms
Poppy seeds - 1/2 cup
Grated dry coconut - 1 cup
Jaggery - 3/4 cup
Elachi -4
Ghee - 3/4 to 1 cup
Process
1) Add 4 tsp of ghee in a kadai fry cashew nuts,almonds, pistachio, raisins seperately and take into plate.
2) Now fry edible gum by adding 1/4 cup of ghee on low to medium flames. When antu starts puffing take it into seperate plate.
3) Now fry dry coconut till it changes color and take into plate.
4) later fry poppy seeds and take it into plate.
5) now fry chopped and deseed dates till it become and take it into plate.
6) let all the ingredients dry completely. Mash fried antu/edible gum with your fingers and keep it aside. If your not comfortable then you can grind it once in mixer grinder at last.
7) other than poppy side , edible gum, raisins and coconut coarsely grind all the ingredients and elachi.
8) now add coconut and raisins (edible gum if ur unable to crush) to the above and grind it once or twice.
9)Add poppy seeds to the above and keep it aside.
10) now prepare jaggery syrup, take a kadai add jaggery and 1/2 cup of water . Boil it on low flames till you get soft ball consistency.
11) now add prepared mixture in syrup and mix everything well.
12) let the mixture cool for sometime and mould ladoo's.
That's it our antina ladoo's are ready to serve.
Store it in dry and air tight container and enjoy.
Hope you liked this healthy ladoo's, leave ur reviews in comment section.
Thank you,
Aruna Saras Chandra 😊
