Roti Laddu

What do you do with your leftover chapatis?  I often throw them as they get so hard.  Sometimes I make roti halwa with leftover soft rotis.  This time I tried a different way to use them up which came out so delicious.  

There is no cooking required to make these laddus.  Mix up a few ingredients with powdered chapati and these delicious laddus are ready in a jiffy.

The taste was simply awesome.  Nobody can guess that these laddus are made of leftover chapatis. Try once and you will find excuses to make them again and again.  So here is the recipe.  Happy Cooking :)

Ingredients:

Leftover Roti/Chapati       -    2 & 1/2 (medium size)

Jaggery grated                   -    1/4 cup or 4 tbsp

Desiccated coconut           -    2 tbsp

Raisins (finely chopped)   -    1 tbsp

Cardamom (crushed)        -    2

Ghee/Clarified butter        -    1 1/2 tbsp

Method:

• Preheat the oven at 160 degree and arrange the chapatis in a baking tray.  Bake for 3-4 minutes or till they become crunchy and a little brown on the top.  Keep an eye to avoid burning. Remove from the oven and let them cool down.  Crush them coarsely and throw in a mixer jar.  Grind till they get a coarse powder consistency.  Add in grated jaggery and desiccated coconut and raisins.  Pulse for 7-8 seconds just to mix up everything together.
• Shift the mixture to a mixing bowl and add in crushed cardamom.  Mix well and add in melted ghee.  Again mix with your hand.  Take a little mixture in your hand and shape it to a round ball.  Likewise make laddus with the remaining mixture.
• Serve.
• Store the remaining laddus in an airtight jar for upto 1 day.

Notes:

1. You can increase the quantity of jaggery as per your taste.  
2. You can add other dried fruits also to make them more filling and nutritious.  Add your desired dry fruits at the time of adding jaggery and coconut and pulse for 10 seconds.  
3. If you find it difficult to bind the laddus then add a little more ghee.