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Jan 2, 2009

Sweet and Sour Cranberry-Coconut Laddu

Hope you all had a great New Year’s Day! Thank you all for your wonderful wishes!

I tried this combo (Cranberry-Coconut) on this New Year’s Day just to make something different. At first, I was afraid how it would turn out! So made these laddus with my fingers crossed. I was amazed at the taste. A little different taste than the regular laddus, but they still tasted good. They were a little sour due to the cranberries and little sweet due to the sugar. Try these laddus only if you like sour taste! I must tell that the sour taste didn’t dominate the sweet taste!

Ingredients: (Makes 20 medium laddus)

  • 2 ½ cups fresh or frozen Cranberries
  • 3 cups desiccated Coconut, sweetened or dry
  • 2 cups Sugar
  • 1 tsp Ghee (Clarified Butter)
  • ¼ tsp Cardamom Seeds
  • Some Raisins


Preparation:

Coarsely grind the cranberries in a blender without adding any water. Keep aside.

Heat a non-stick pan and add ground cranberries along with rest of the ingredients and mix well. Keep the flame on medium setting and keep stirring the cranberry mixture. Make sure not to burn. Keep stirring until the mixture leaves the sides of the pan and switch off the flame.

Let the mixture cool down until it is easy to touch. Make round balls (any size) by taking small portions of the mixture and roll each ball in powdered sugar (optional). Place all the laddus on a plate and leave them for some time to dry.

Enjoy the laddus any time of the day.


35 comments:

Nandinis food said... [Reply]

Your cranberry laddus are super ravishing. I will try it one day.

Priya Suresh said... [Reply]

Delicious Cranberry-coconut laddus Uma...

sriharivatsan said... [Reply]

First time to your blog. Very innovative dishes like maggi pakoda..Nice yaar.

Happy New Year to you

Pallavi said... [Reply]

Wow Uma, very unique. I'll have to try this.

Wish you a very happy, healthy and yummy 2009

Unknown said... [Reply]

nice colour..so tempting..you really come up with such creative idea always..

Shama Nagarajan said... [Reply]

wow..different combo..lovely.Have an interesting event for ur kid......do check my handicrafts blog...hope she will enjoy it...........happy new year

jayasree said... [Reply]

What an innovative combo. With the lovely color, your ladoos are very tempting indeed.

Anonymous said... [Reply]

I love the idea of sweet and sour cranberry laddus,will definitely try then:)

Dori said... [Reply]

These look awesome!

Daily Meals said... [Reply]

Healthy and colourful laddus...

Srikitchen said... [Reply]

looks delicious!
happy new year!

Suganya said... [Reply]

That was a creative dessert. Look so good. Perfect lovely color. YUM!

Happy new year!!!!

anudivya said... [Reply]

That is so nice, and I am glad you mentioned about the sour taste... I will maybe try it with a smaller quantity.

Trupti said... [Reply]

Wow Uma, Ladoos looks very delicious & very different recipe.

Happy New Year !!

Sunshinemom said... [Reply]

Very innovative - as always!! Everything you cook is perfect, Uma!

Cham said... [Reply]

I love cran just for the sour taste. Beautiful creation Uma!

sra said... [Reply]

First apples, now cranberries, what next? Watermelon? :-)

Beyond Curries said... [Reply]

That's such an innovative and interesting recipe Uma. Also thanks, I checked with Foodbuzz.

Sig said... [Reply]

Dear Uma, wish you and yours a new year filled with love and joy! Very innovative laddu recipe by the way! Lovely color!

Sharmi said... [Reply]

waw never heard of this laddu:) looks cranilicious!! Have a wonderful year ahead.

Raks said... [Reply]

Sounds innovative!! Looks colorful too!

KonkaniBlogger said... [Reply]

Happy New year Uma..This laddoo is really innovative. I would have never thgt of laddu with cranberry, I like sour n sweet taste. It reminds me of the sweet n sour Imli golis that I've had.

Vijitha said... [Reply]

very innovative uma! looks so colourful.

Mahimaa's kitchen said... [Reply]

very creative. tangy and sweet ladoo.. looks yummy. Happy New Year!

Pavani said... [Reply]

looking yum yum n making me tempting here..and wish u a happy new year uma dear...

Jaishree Iyer said... [Reply]

Looks awesome!Healthy and colourful laddus...Different recepie..

notyet100 said... [Reply]

wow.//this looks so different nd yum,..perfect start for new yr.

Shama Nagarajan said... [Reply]

i am really floating as i have got ur kid's attention........waiting for her cute crafts....conevy my wishes to her.

Vaishali said... [Reply]

The thought of those sweet-sour laddus makes my mouth water. The pictures look great.

Adlak's tiny world said... [Reply]

Hey uma this is something diffrnt and tasty look... colorful da... again changed yr prof pic .. cute kutties...

Premyscakes said... [Reply]

very innovative, sounds yummy. I like sour taste.

Unknown said... [Reply]

Very nice & innovative... looks perfect..

Malar Gandhi said... [Reply]

Very interesting laadu...

Shobana senthilkumar said... [Reply]

wow yummy laddu:)

Lakshmi said... [Reply]

Never thought of laddus with cranberries. They look yummy.

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