Preparation time: 1 hour
Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 16 no.

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1 cup ragi flour or finger millet flour
2. 1/4 cup dessicated coconut
3. 3/4 cup jaggery
4. 1/4 cup water
5. 2 tbsp ghee
6. 2 tbsp broken cashews
7. A big pinch of cardamom

Instructions for making ragi laddu or ragi unde:

1. Heat 1 tbsp of ghee in a pan and fry cashews. Take it out and keep it aside.
2. Next, to the same pan add in ragi flour and one more tbsp of ghee.
3. Fry ragi flour until slight colour change or until you get nice aroma under medium flame. This will tke around 10 minutes.
4. At the end add in dessicated coconut and fry for one more minute and switch off the stove. Take it out and set it aside.
5. Next in the same pan take jaggery, water and bring it to boil.
6. Add in cardamom powder and boil until you get one string or soft ball consistency. Switch off the stove.
7. Immediately pour the jaggery syrup over the roasted ragi flour, coconut and cashew.
8. Mix it well and wait until heat is reduced. Make small lemon sized balls. In the beginning the laddus will be little soft and it will become stiff once it is cool.

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