Aliv Ladoo - yummy and healthy mid meal snack

Aliv Ladoo - one stop for all your daily iron and folate requirements

Quantity - around 18 -20 small ladoos

Ingredients -

Aliv seeds - 1/4th cup
Jaggery - 1 cup powdered
Fresh Coconut - 1 cup grated
Cardamom - 1 tsp (optional)
Homemade ghee - 1 tsp

Appliance required :
Instant pot

Procedure-

1. Soak Aliv seeds in regular water or coconut water for atleast 3/4 hours . Once soaked alive seeds puff up and get jelly like structure .
2. Now in a big vessel , take this puffed up aliv seeds with jaggery and coconut . Mix well and cook it in instant pot for 15 mins manual mode. Make sure you add water to the main pot . No water is needed in the mixture of coconut + aliv + jaggery
3. After the instant pot is done , remove the cooked mixture and let it cool down for couple minutes .
4. In a kadai , heat bit of a ghee and then add the cooked mixture to further cook .
5. Keep cooking in sim to medium heat till all the mixture leaves from the kadai - this can easily take 15/20 mins.
6. Once mixture is well cooked , add pinch of cardamom and let it cool down completely.
7. After the mixture is cooled , apply bit of ghee to your palms and roll small ladoos . Keep in mind , the mixture will be a bit soft as aliv once cooked becomes like jelly . But you should be able to roll into ladoos easily .
8 . Refrigerate and store for a week or atleast 10 days.

Serve as a mid day meal :)

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