Pasiparuppu Urundai / Moong dal Ladoos

Diwali is round the corner. Busy streets, people carrying heavy shopping bags, buzzing happily, children laughing, crowded sweet shops and there is merriment everywhere.
I decided to start with the easiest sweet to welcome the festival. Moong dal ladoos or Pasi paruppu urundai is one among the easiest to make in the list. This healthy sweet has a good shelf life and I am reserving for my children who are turning up soon for the holiday!


 I roasted 1/2 kg of moongdal and used 1/2 kg of sugar for sweetness, 'machine ground' to a fine powder in a flour mill. I am scaling down to the cup measurement, below.

Pasi paruppu urundai / Moong dal ladoos
Makes- 20-23 balls

 Get ready with:

1 cup moong dal (200gms)
1 cup sugar (180-200gms)
1/2 cup ghee ( you may not need it all )
5-6 cashew nuts- chopped
1/2 tsp cardamom powder ( optional. I didn't add)

Stepwise Method:



Heat a non-stick kadai and dry roast the moong dal stirring continuously until the aroma spreads and the dal acquires a brown hue (more than golden brown, but take care not to over roast too)
My 1/2 kg dal needed 10 minutes in medium flame to get roasted right.




Chop cashews into tiny bits




Grind the dal to a fine powder, as fine as possible. Powder the sugar separately and mix along with the dal powder. For the given measurements of dal and sugar you will get two cups of fine powder +/-
I mixed the roasted dal and the sugar and sent it to the flour mill and hence got it all combined as you see. If you use your home grinder, do it separately and mix along well.




Heat the ghee and roast the chopped cashews, golden brown




Make a dent and pour over the dal-sugar powder. Combine gently with a ladle initially as the ghee will be too hot for your hands




and shape into balls/ladoos when the heat of the ghee is bearably hot. The hotter the better.
Use your right palm and press together to shape them. You may not easily shape them into ladoos if the ghee comes down to the room temperature. So, while making more numbers, start with a cup of powdered dal-sugar mix, heat ghee as batches and shape out.




One one side I have shaped the ladoos using the right amount of ghee. The other half with an extra amount and so you see moist and shiny balls.
The shine settles down and ladoos turn harden after a day but it sticks to the bottom of the container in which you store.So try to make them with the right amount of ghee if you intend to store for a few days.

As mentioned earlier, I had machine ground the dal along with the sugar. I avoid cardamom so as to retain the natural flavour of roasted dal in the ladoos.

The dal-sugar mixture keeps for ages and even more guaranteed once refrigerated. You can use hot ghee and make ladoos when you like.

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