Add some drama to your ladoo

• Put all the dry fruits, along with a pinch of salt, into a grinder and make a fine powder. 
• Add dates, cocoa powder and vanilla essence to this powder and grind for one minute until it forms a crumble.
• Add 20ml of water and again blend the mixture for 1 to 2 minutes until all the ingredients have been combined to form a sticky chocolaty dough.
• Grease your palm and start rolling ladoos out of the dough.
• Serve immediately and enjoy your chocolate ladoos.

• In a blender, grind the biscuits into fine powder.
• In a bowl, add the biscuit powder, condensed milk and mix together to make a dough.
• Divide the dough into small balls and shape them in the form of ladoos.
• Roll the ladoos in desiccated coconut and serve.

• In a food processor, grind the pineapple chunks into a paste. 
• Heat ghee in a non-stick pan on low heat, add pineapple puree and fry for a minute or till a bit cooked.Make sure you do not burn the puree. 
• Add desiccated coconut and sugar, mix well. Cook this mixture for about 2 minutes on low heat. 
• Add milk powder and cardamom powder and stir well. 
• When the mixture starts getting thick, transfer into a bowl and cool. Once the mixture is cooled, make small balls of the mixture into ladoo shape with greased hands. 
• Garnish with chopped nuts and serve. 

• Wash, peel and grate the carrots.
• In a wide pan, melt 1 tbsp of butter/ghee/oil and roast the almonds till golden. Drain and keep it aside.
• To the same pan, add grated carrots and sauté on medium heat for 5 minutes until carrots are little soft and ooze out some water and get dried.
• At that stage, add the desiccated coconut. Roast for a minute.
• To the same pan, pour the sweetened condensed milk and rose water to it. Mix well and cook on low flame.
• Cook it until the mixture gets thick and starts to roll like a ball. It will take around 5 to 8 mins.
• Add the roasted almonds, cool the mixture but do not make it very cold. Cool it a little so that you can handle by hand.
• Just apply ghee/oil in your hand, make round balls by taking that mixture in your hand.
• Roll these balls in the ½ cup of desiccated coconut and serve.
• You can store them in airtight container up to four days.

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