Gaund is an edible gum. You first need to deep-fry the crystals till they fluff up and then powder them before use in recipes. Gaund is a heat-giving food that is why it is best to consume in winters. This traditional sweet is best to consume with a warm glass of milk or can be eaten as a dessert. It is given to ladies who just give birth, mixing with dry ginger & few herbs due to healing properties of ingredients it contains. These are made mixing in wheat n gram flour with dry fruits along.
I keep making them now for my kids as both of them loves eating it. For me a good start for the day or post workout meal with milk.
Ingredients: Sufficient For making
20 laddus
1 Cup whole
wheat flour
1 Cup gram
laddu flour
¾ Cup
edible gum
3 Tblsp
cashews finely chopped
3 Tblsp
almonds finely chopped
3 Tblsp
pistachios finely chopped
1 Tsp
cardamom powder
10-12
Saffron threads (optional)
¾ Cup sugar
¾ Cup
clarified butter + more to fry edible gum
2 Tblsp
raisins
Method: Soak saffron threads in 1 tblsp
milk and keep aside.
Deep fry edible gum into ghee/clarified butter. When you add edible gum in the butter it will start puffing and white in color. Be careful when you do this because it splutters sometimes like cumin seeds. Grind it into mixer and make powder.
Sift the wheat and besan/gram laddu flour. Take a heavy bottom pan and dry roast the
flour on medium flame. Don’t burn it, just that the raw smell of flour should
disappear. It will become a little brown in color, to this add saffron threads
and stir it for few more min. Now take off the pan and take out the flour.
