Thinai laddu | Foxtail millet honey sweet balls-How to make-Step by step photos

Cuisine Style:Tamil Nadu, South India | Cooking Time: 10 minutes | To Serve: 8 | Type: Millet Sweet, Festival, Diwali Sweet, Krishna jayanthi

Ingredients

• Thinai [Foxtail millet ] – 1 cup
• Honey – ½ cup
• Green Cardamom-2
• Cashewnuts – 5
• Desiccated coconut – 3 tbsp (Optional)

Preparation

• Wash Thinai arisi.
• Drain water completely then spread over the cotton cloth to absorb extra moisture on the rice.
• Dry roast Thinai arisi till you get nice aroma [Apr. 4 to 5 min], let it cool then finely grind with cardamom seeds.
• Or Break the cardamom shell, add the seeds & brown sugar in a mixer jar & finely grind.
• Heat ghee in a pan roast cashew nuts & desiccated coconut then finely chop cashews
• In a bowl add ground thinai powder mixture, honey, desiccated coconut, & chopped cashew nuts mix well.
• Divide the mixture into equal size ladoos.
• Store it in an airtight container use within 3 days.

How to make Thinai Laddu-Step by step photos

Wash thinai arisi, drain water completely

Dry roast thinai rice till you get nice aroma

Now thinai arisi is ready, let it cool

Add thinai, cardamom seeds in a mixer jar & finely grind

Freshly ground roasted thinai powder is ready

Ghee roast cashewnuts

Ghee roast desiccated coconut

In a bowl add desiccated coconut & roasted nuts

Add thinai powder mix well

Add honey

Add ghee mix well & make lemon size laddu

Foxtail millet ladoo

Thinai Thean Urundai

Thinai arisi laddu