No Cook Diwali Desserts, Easy Vegan Rainbow Platter
For the festival season ahead, here are a few No Cook Diwali Desserts which are very easy to make and at the same time visually so appealing.The first recipe is a very famous Maa Ladoo recipe from Tamilnadu. This is an age-old dessert and requires very few ingredients.The second recipe is peanut ladoo which is another simple dessert, requiring just two ingredients. For some variation, I have added spirulina powder for the lovely blue hue.
Equipment
- Vita Mix Blender
Ingredients
Ingredients for Maladoo
- 1 cup Roasted Bengal Gram
- ½ cup Jaggery or Brown Sugar
- ¼ cup Melted Ghee or use any vegan milk for vegan variation.
- few No Cardamom seeds
- 2 tbsp Cranberry/Dragon Fruit/ Beetroot Powder for variation in pink colour
- 4 Nos Cashew Nuts,halved
Ingredients for Peanut Ladoo
- 1 cup Roasted Peanuts
- ½ cup Jaggery
- 2 tbsp Blue Spirulina Powder
Instructions
How to make Maladoo
- Add roasted bengal gram to a blender jar and make a fine powder.
- Take it out in a dish.
- Add brown sugar and cardamom to a blender.
- Make a fine powder.
- Add this powdered sugar mixture with the powdered bengal gram mixture.
- Mix together.
- Add melted ghee or milk.
- mix with hands. the dough should hold together.
- Shape into balls. This proportion will yield about 8 medium sized ladoos.You can arrange sliced cashew nut half.
- The ladoos can be served as it is.
- Take some cranberry/beetroot/ dragon fruit powder.
- For some variation roll them in cranberry/beetroot/ dragon fruit powder.
- Enjoy the colourful Maladoo.
Peanut Ladoos
- Add roasted peanuts and jaggery to a blender jar.
- Pulse for a few times till you get a crumbly sticky dough.
- Make balls. These can be served as it is.
- For some variation, roll the balls in blue spirulina powder.
- Or, you can add some spirulina powder to the peanut mix .
- And then form ladoos
- Enjoy a healthy rainbow no cook dessert platter this Diwali.
