A treat children can help to make. Dates bind everything together and provide the sweetness, so there is no sugar, jaggery or honey.
Makes: 12 laddoos | Time: 15 minutes | Suits: 2 years and up
Ingredients
- 1 cup soft, seedless dates
- 3/4 cup rolled oats, dry-roasted for 3 minutes
- 2 tablespoons sesame seeds, lightly roasted
- 2 tablespoons desiccated coconut, plus extra for rolling
- 1 tablespoon ghee or coconut oil
- A pinch of cardamom powder
Method
- Grind the roasted oats to a coarse powder.
- Add the dates and blend until the mixture clumps together.
- Add the sesame seeds, coconut, ghee and cardamom. Pulse a few times to combine.
- Roll into small balls with lightly greased hands.
- Roll each ball in coconut. Keep in an airtight box in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Tiffin tip: One or two laddoos make a good break-time snack. Make them small for younger children.
Contains: sesame, and milk if using ghee. Oats may contain traces of gluten. If you add nuts, grind them finely: whole nuts are a choking risk for children under five.
From the Healthy Juniors kitchen. Review by our nutritionist panel is pending. Every child is different: check with your doctor about allergies and before introducing new foods to children under one.