Alsi Pinni Recipe | Flaxseed Ladoo | Alsi ke Ladoo
 
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These tiny, flattened, bronze-colored flaxseeds are brimming with nutritional goodness, and are more versatile then you may realize. I have always added these in parathas or used in Making mukhwas. So this time for change made ladoos/pinnis out of it. And winter is the best so to consume it. This is a very short and quick recipe to make pinnis, which needs basic ingridients.
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Recipe type: Sweets/Mithai
Cuisine: North Indian
Serves: 12 pinnis
Ingredients
  • Flax seeds/ Alsi – ½ cup
  • Wheat flour – 1 cup
  • Jaggery / Brown Sugar – 4 to 5 tbsp
  • Ghee – ¾ cup
  • Walnuts – 2 tbsp
  • Almonds – 2 tbsp
  • Cashews – 2 tbsp
  • Edible gum – 50 gms / 2 tbsp
  • Green cardamom powder – 1 tsp
  • Desiccated coconut – ½ cup
  • Pistachio powder – 4 tbsp
Instructions
  1. Start with roasting the flax seeds.
  2. For this, heat a non stick pan on flame and put the flax seeds to the hot pan. Keep stirring constantly and roast the seeds until they starts spluttering.
  3. Later, transfer the roasted flax seeds on a plate.
  4. Once it has cool down completely, make a coarse by grinding it in mixer grinder.
  5. Now pour ghee in the hot pan.
  6. When the ghee melts, add wheat flour. Roast the flour until it acquiresl light golden brown colour.
  7. Stir constantly to prevent the flour from burning.
  8. As the wheat flour turns aromatic and nice brown in colour, transfer it on another plate.
  9. Pour some more ghee in the pan.
  10. As the ghee become little hot, add some edible gum in it. Stir continuously until it puffs up completely. Take this out.
  11. After the edible gum cools down, crush them coarsely with a rolling pin or grind it in mortar pestle.
  12. Now add roasted wheat flour, flax seeds powder, edible gum powder, almonds, cashews, walnuts powder back in the pan.
  13. Put on the flame again and mix Jaggery / Brown Sugar. Mix nicely.
  14. Add cardamom powder and mix nuts powder and give a gentle stir. In the end add desiccated coconut and mix nicely and put off the flame.
  15. Take this mixture out on plate to stop. Let it cool down a bit.
  16. grease your palms with ghee to bind the mixture into medium size pinni/ladoo.
  17. Make sure that the mixture is warm while binding or else it will become difficult to make the ladoos, after the mixture cools down completely.
  18. Once all the pinnis are ready, roll them in powdered pistachios. Arrange them in a plate.
  19. Put a pistachio piece on the top of all the pinnis while binding them and arrange them on a plate. Flax seeds pinni are ready.
  20. Consume this nutritious and delicious Alsi/ flax seeds pinni during winter season and stay healthy.
Recipe by Yummy Tales Of Tummy at https://yummytalesoftummy.com/alsi-pinni-recipe-flaxseed-ladoo/