Snacking doesn’t need a reason and many of us do that between meals, after meals, , or just for no reason , mindless snacking without our knowledge we add too many calories and not much nutrition in choice of ingredients .

So to stay safe and munch on these protein ladoos, healthy oats wheat flakes millet flakes dry fruits ladoos.

This doesn’t need a festival or an occasion to make.

With kids and elders in the house, this is definitely is a good healthy treat .No white grains, no sugar recipe.Sure to be useful . basically a no cook recipe, with just couple of minutes to roast the oats , and melt jaggery .If you are used to microwave cooking this can be made even faster.

Even though sugar is not added , dry fruits and jaggery has sugar as sweetener so diabetics are advised to watch the portion they consume, but this is any day better than deep fried sncaks, and sugary treats.

This whole ladoo mixture can be set aside in a fridge as a mix for even making porridge instead of laddoos . skip adding any sweetener like jaggery , just dry fruits is enough to give added sweet tastev. Children can be served with a tbsp of honey to the porridgw mnade of this ladoo mixture .

This is like the granola we see in stores whihc are in clumps but added with extra sugar .

INGREDIENTS

SERVING: 15

1 cup oats thicker variety, like old fashioned ,

1 1/2 cups wheat flakes

1/4 - 1/2 cup mix of nuts slivered

1 tbsp flax seeds

1 tbsp chia seeds

1 tbsp sunflowerseeds

1 tbsp melon seeds

3/4 cup dry fruits mix like druied cranberries, raisins, dried blueberries,dry figs, dry dates, apricots . all sticky dry fruits .

2-3 tbsp peanut butter optional

3 tbsp melted ghee

1/4 cup organic powdered native jaggery

1 tsp vanilla essence, dont skip this,it gives a nice aroma .

1/4 cup ragi flakes or mixed millet flakes like jowar flakes, barley flakes .

1/4 cup desiccated coconut to roll the laddos

INSTRUCTIONS

Take a pan , add little ghee and dry roast the oats till golden and fragrant .

Dry roast wheat flakes and ragi flakes to make them crisp , but can be used without roasting too. dry roast any other dry flakes you are using . this step is only to make them more crisp .

Do not powder the chia seeds, sunflower seeds and melon seeds , add then to mixture after dry roasting for extra crunschy taste .

When cooled, powder them coarsely in a mixie.

Separately pulse the dry fruits like berries, raisins, dates, figs or what ever dry fruits you are going to use. add the nuts along . This sticky mixture will help to bind the ladoo without making jaggery syrup , so you can skip adding jaggery also .

Now in a pan , add some ghee, jaggery and without adding water, heat till it starts melting .

Add peanut butter to this mixture if you are using .

Now add the powdered oats, wheat and ragi flakes along with the pulsed dry fruits and nuts .

now stir the whole mixture well making sure the melted jaggery butter, mixture is combined with the powdered ingredients and the sticky dry fruits also combined well.

you will see the whole mixture glistening and sticky, try making ladoos out of mixture, by greasing the palm a bit . if you think the mixture s a little dry , add 1-2 tbsp of milk just to enable making ladoos.

If you feel the laddos are too sticky than expected, then add more dry powdered wheat flakes to the mixture, it will dry up and rolling into laddos will be easy .

Next roll in the desiccated coconut mixture , store in fridge and enjoy whenever a treat is needed.

Keeping chilled in fridge will help ladoos to stay fresh for long and firm as well .

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