Ingredients

• 1 cup - edible gum, finely chopped
• 1 cup - almonds/badam, finely chopped
• 1 cup - dry dates/uttutte, finely chopped
• 1 cup - raisins
• 1 cup - desiccated coconut
• 1.5 cups jaggery
• 1-1.5 tbsp - khus khus (optional)
• 2 tbsp - ghee for roasting
• Ghee for deep frying

How to Make Ladoo with edible gum

• Heat ghee in a heavy-bottomed pan for deep frying.
• Drop the chopped edible gum pieces into hot ghee and fry until they puff up.
• Remove from pan and drain on paper towels.
• Dry roast khus khus and keep aside.
• Heat 2 tbsp ghee in a pan and roast the chopped almonds until they turn lightly golden brown. Keep aside.
• Dry roast the desiccated coconut and keep aside.
• Mix all the dry fruits, desiccated coconut, fried edible gum and khus khus in a large mixing bowl and keep aside.
• Heat jaggery in a heavy-bottomed pan and add just enough water to cover the jaggery.
• Boil until jaggery dissolves and forms a syrup with thread like consistency.
• Pour the syrup into the above mixture little by little and mix well.
• Grease your palm with a drop of ghee.
• Take some of the mixture in your palm and make laddus of desired size.
• Repeat for remaining mixture as well.
• Let cool and store in air tight containers.