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Bread Cranberry Chocolate Ladoos

Hello friends,

Its been long I know; I had crazy days all these way which forced me to stay away from my food blog. But as usual we cannot stay away from our close things forever, so I am back.

The security settings of my new phone is another culprit, as whenever there was a little time I try to post something, my stubborn new phone has tons of excuses saying, "No I won't share my stuffs with another machine". Finally today I thought I have to put an end to this, by cheating my phone; and figured out it was so easy; reality was " I was dumb" :O

So what do you see here? some maroon colored sphere shaped beings rolled over granulated sugar, and looks so enticing; isn't it.
So this is another research outcome from my kitchen. To be fair with you, let me tell you one thing. When I started with the main ingredient of this, I was wondering too, what the hell I am up to :P

But the fruit of the effort as always turned out so sweet. And what to name it? As Indian all sphere shaped sweets are Ladoos, Ha I will call him Ladoo, prefixed with the constituent elements which helped to take it to the final product. Feels like a science Lab? Sorry :P That's how I am, sometimes complicated :D

Ingredients:

Bread ground in mixer - 2 cups
Cranberry preserve - 2 tbsp ( I used homemade, but you can try store brought as well)
Cocoa powder, unsweetened - 1 tbsp
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Ghee - 1 tbsp
Desiccated Coconut - 1 tbsp


Filling 

Walnuts, chopped - as required (each ladoo would hold a quarter)
Pomegranate peeled - as required (each ladoo would hold up to 4)

Method: 

Heat a non stick pan and pour ghee. When ghee is hot add the bread crumbs. Roast bread crumbs for few mins (no need to brown it, just ghee has to be absorbed entirely). Now ad cranberry preserve and sugar. mix it well until well combined. Add cocoa powder and desiccated coconut as well and mix well.

Take it out to a parchment or plate and while hot itself, knead to a soft dough. Now take portions and flatten to place walnuts and pomegranate in middle and roll to make gooseberry sized balls out of it and roll in sugar. Keep in refrigeration until well set.





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