Coconut - Nuts and Dates Ball.

Coconut - Nuts and Dates Ball is a sweet dish and you can munch them any time of the day. It is an healthy laddu since it contain no sugar.

Lets see some benefits of having Dates in our diet. 
Eating dates everyday is a healthy habit especially for women. It is full of minerals, vitamin and fiber.
Lets see some benefits of having dates every day.
Dates helps in anemia, intestinal disorder, diarrhea and constipation. They are good for gaining weight. They contain calcium, sulfur, iron and potassium, manganese, copper, phosphorous and magnesium. These minerals are necessary for balanced and healthy diet.

I have used some dates, figs, cashews, almonds, poppy seeds and a little copra. (Dry coconut). 

Lets see the recipe now:

Things Needed 

Dates : 500 Grams (Fresh and soft )

Figs : 4 to 5 

Poppy Seeds : 2 Tablespoons

Cashews :  1/2 Cup or 4 to 5 Tablespoons. (Cut it into small pieces).

Almonds : 10 to 15

Dry coconut : 1 Cup (Grated)

 Method :

1. Cut cashews, figs in to small pieces. 

2. Dry grind almonds into powder form.

3. Dry grind coconut and keep it aside. 

4. Remove seeds from dates and smash it nicely. (Use fresh dates).

5. Now take a big bowl. Put dates, cashews figs and kneed it. Add coconut powder and powdered almonds.

6. Kneed it slowly and let it form a dough. Now divide the dough in to small portions.

7. Take a small portion of the dates mixture and form a round shape like a small ball.

8. Keep poppy seeds in a tray. Roll the dates ball on poppy seeds and arrange in a tray or plate.

9. Repeat the same and do the rest of date and Nuts ball.

10. Arrange them on a tray and serve/eat any time of the day

Note : 

Use fresh dates to prepare laddu. It helps to hold the ingredients tightly. You can also use some jaggery if you like more sweets in the laddu. (Grate or powder jaggery and then add it). Adding any nuts is optional. It is a healthy laddu which can be sent school kids with their lunch/snack box. Diabetic people also can have them since no sugar is added in this laddu. Adding some glucose biscuits is optional. ( I have not added). You need to kneed the ingredients well. You can fry cashews in ghee if you want to. (optional).

Time : 30 Minutes

20 Laddus can be prepared. (Depending on the size).

Spicy Poori (Khara Poori)

Poori is a fried dish prepared using wheat flour. We can have poori for breakfast, as snack or even dinner. Poori baaji (Aloo/potato dry curry), Poori Saagu (vegetable curry), Poori Shreekandh are world wide known dishes. Not only kids all the age group love to eat Poori.
Spicy Poori is bit different from normal poori. I have added red chilly powder, jeera and other spices. This Spicy poori is my son's favourite and we like it too.

This is a fried dish and children especially love to have them. It is one of the easy dish and we can have them with plain curd.
Lets see the recipe now:

Ingredients:

Wheat flour: 2 cups
Rice flour : 1 Tablespoon
Red chilli powder: 1 Tea spoon
Asfotodia: a pinch
Jeera/Cumin seeds : 1 Teaspoon
Salt : to taste
Turmeric powder : a pinch
Oil : To Fry : 1 to 1 1/2 cup

Method:

1. Take a big bowl or pan. Put wheat flour, rice flour.
2, Add jeera/cumin seeds, red chilly powder, a pinch of turmeric powder.
3. Add turmeric powder, salt and a tablespoon of oil. (no need to heat).
4. Add asafoetida/Ingh and mix all the ingredients well.

5. Now prepare a thick dough using water. (little by little). Kneed the dough nicely.
6. Divide the dough in to small ball size portion.

7. Use a roller and flatten them in to poori.(small circle shape).

8. Keep oil on the fire. Heat and fry rolled pooris one by one. Put them on the kitchen tissue.

9. Repeat the same with remaining dough and prepare pooris.

10. Serve Hot Spicy Pooris with cup of curd or any curry you have prepared.

Note :

Use water carefully while preparing the dough or it might take more oil while frying. You can add spices according to your wish. More/Less. You can use chat masala/ garam masala /pav bhaji masala etc Use of masala should be less or it might taste bitter. (Any kind masala 1/2 teaspoon will be sufficient). According to the quantity also matter. Adding fresh ghee to the flour softens the dough and good pooris you will get. Adding rice flour helps to get the crisp and fluffy pooris.
Time : 30 Minutes
Serves : 3 to 4 (According to servings ).