Flax Seeds Laddu || No Ghee No Sugar Sweet recipe for Diwali Festival

Flax seeds laddu with step by step pics, tips & video. These ladoo's are very healthy, tasty and nutty. This flax seeds ladoo is one of my favorite, which I love to have it regularly without any guilt. Dussehra festival completed, hope you all enjoyed it with your friends and family 😍. Coming festival is Diwali,  it is big festival for all of us right. This festival signifies the victory of good over evil & festival of lights. This year we all have to pray to get victory over evil corona and to for good health to everyone 🙏. 

Do check out this recipe in my youtube channel

https://youtu.be/PwNCfM1mg50

Coming to our post, for festival we prepare different varieties of sweet & hot recipes which contains lots of ghee & oil in it. Surely we tempt to have as many as we can, later we feel guilt after checking our weight 😂. D't worry friends I am here for you, today I am sharing "no ghee, no sugar " sweet - Flax seeds laddu for you all. Not only on festival days, we can this laddu's regularly. If you know the benefits of flax seeds, you never say no to have it. This is perfect recipe for those who are working out to loose weight. I did not added single drop of ghee to prepare these laddu's, if you want you can add ghee too.

Health benefits of having Flax Seeds regularly

** Flax seeds are protein rich

** Contains good source of Omega-3

** As it contains high fiber, good for weight loss

** It is good for hair & skin

** It strengthens immune system

** Good for digestive system

** Controls cholesterol levels

** It is gluten free 

** This is very women in many ways..

So do try to add falx seeds in your diet regularly. I have used groundnuts, oats, sesame seeds, dry coconut etc.. All the ingredients helps you all to control weight when they used limitedly and yes you have to do proper work out's too 😄. We can prepare this ladoo by grinding all ingredients coarsely or smoothly according to your taste. In one week I prepared this ladoo's twice, at first I prepared this ladoo by grinding smoothly, second batch I prepared it bit nutty. Both the ways it taste delicious. Prepare as per your taste. II batch ladoo pic👇

Do check other festival recipes from my youtube channel

 - Vasus VegKitchen

Do check other sweet & snack recipes by just clicking below links

** Jowar popcorn laddu

**Bread Gulab Jamun

** Pumpkin halwa

** Oats & nuts Laddo (youtube link)

** Rajastani Moong dal halwa

** Besan Laddu

 **Rava Kesari/ Kesari Bath 

Event : Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge

Taking this yummy and cheesy Nachos to "Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge" fb group started by Priya, and taken further till date by Mayuri di, I bookmarked her Chocolate truffles to try soon. Do check her space for wonderful recipes. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it.

This month theme is suggested by  Poonam, she is very talented chef and inspiration to me. I love her recipes a lot, I tried many of her recipes. Few more recipes which I bookmarked are  Mexican one pot quiona, Moong dal halwa to try soon. This month my partner is Preethi di, who blogs at "preethicuisine". She is wonderful chef, I like her photography skills  a lot, do check her space for wonderful and healthy recipes from different regions. I bookmarked her coconut rasam,  dragon fruit jujubes to try soon. I gave black sesame & kasuri methi as two secret ingredients, in return she gave me cardamom & sesame seeds. With which I prepared this delicious & healthy laddu 😍😋.

                                   Flax Seeds Laddu

cook Time : 20 minutes

Serves : 18 laddu's

Category : Sweets

Recipe Cuisine: Indian 

Main ingredients : Flax seeds

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients ( I am sharing quantity which I shared in YouTube)

Flax seeds - 1 cup

ground nuts - 1/2 cup

almonds - 1/2 cup

sesame seeds - 1/4 cup

dry coconut - 1/2 cup

oats - 1/2 cup

jaggery - 1&1/2 cup

cardamom powder - 1 tsp

Instructions

1) Dry roast ground nuts on low medium flames till it changes color and then take it plate.

2) Now fry almonds on low to medium flames, when it starts crackling take it into plate.

3) In the same pan add oats, fry it on low flames when it starts changes color & becomes crisp take it into plate.

4) Now fry dry coconut for few seconds or till starts changing color, then take it into plate.

5) Now fry flax seeds on low flames, when starts becoming crisp & starts crackling take it into plate. ( If you want to laddu's texture nutty then take fried flax seeds in separate plate, to grind it lastly)

6) Switch off the flames, now fry sesame seeds and take it into plate.

7) Let all the fried ingredients cool to room temperature, later remove fried ground nuts skin. 

8.a) If you want laddu's texture nutty (pic 2) then grind all ingredients other flax seeds coarsely and take it into bowl. Later grind flax seeds coarsely and everything well. 

8.b) If you want laddu's texture smooth(pic 1) then grind all fried ingredients smoothly (** check tips) and take it into bowl.

9) If you are using good jaggery then no need to filter it, otherwise filter it. And take into wide kadai, add cardamom powder cook it on low flames till you get 1 string consistency.

10) Then add grinded flax seeds powder & mix well, till it becomes like thick dough. Then take it into wide bowl.

11) Let the above mixture cool for some time, do not leave it for long time. wait till you hand can bear the hands, now pinch some laddu mixture and start preparing laddu by giving it good round shape and keep it plate. Repeat same for remaining laddu mixture. (here I am sharing two batches ladoo's pics, can find the difference in the texture ??)

As we molded laddu's on heat it may become flat after some time, you shape mold it again to give good shapes to laddu :)

That's it our flax seeds laddu's are ready to serve 😍.

 Store these laddu's in dry & air tight container to increase its shell life. In my place I & N.S will complete it with in one week 😆. I specially prepare this ladoo's with less jaggery & no ghee , so that I can have it when I craving to have sweet. Though I prepare many sweets using ghee & sugar for N.S, he always want my eat my flax seeds laddu's 😄😇. 

Tips

** Fry flax seeds on low flames as it fry quickly.

** Fry sesame seeds lastly on low flames(if quantity is more) or after switching off stove(if less quantity).

** You can also add ghee for frying & molding laddu's.

**  If explained, grind mixture coarsely to get nutty texture or grind finely to get smooth texture to laddu's.

** Increase quantity of jaggery as per your taste. 

** You can apply ghee to your hands while molding ladoo's.

** Just boil jaggery till you get string consistency otherwise laddu's will becomes hard while molding or after molding.

Hopes this tips are helpful to you, will share video very soon. Do check other sweet & festival recipes(press the link below pic to check recipes), do not forgot subscribe my youtube channel  :)

                          

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                      Pineapple Rava Kesari(video link)

                           

            coconut rice, chana dal sundal

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