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Date Truffles | Date Laddu

Can you think of a dessert without sugar, jaggery, cream, ghee or butter? Here is one for you – Date Truffles or Date Laddu! I got the recipe for Date Truffles from the magazine called “CookingLight”. I have tweaked it a little bit to suit our taste. Must admit this is one of the easiest dessert recipe!

I made the Date Laddu for navarathri. I like to term this as “Navarathri recipe“! During navarathri, sundal and other healthy snacks are given to guests visiting our Navarathri Kolu. Since Date Laddu is one of the healthy (yet tasty) snack, I would recommend this to be a perfect Navarathri Recipe!!

Date (Khajoor) is loaded with nutrients. Its a great source of dietary potassium.

Date Truffles
Date Truffles

If you have guests at home and not have enough time to prepare something sweet to munch, don’t worry! Dates Truffle can come to your rescue 😉 It requires NO cooking at all! All you need to do is have pitted dates, almond and little honey (optional) at home to prepare this instant sweet recipe.

Dry fruit and nuts laddu
Dry fruit and nuts laddu

Ingredients:

Pitted Date: 1.25 cups
Almonds: 1 cup
Honey: 1/2 tbsp (0.5 tbsp = 1.5 tsp)
Cinnamon powder: 1/2 tsp
Salt: 1/8 tsp
Cardamom powder: 1/2 tsp (optional)
Saffron strands: 4-5 (optional)
Coconut flakes: 2-3 tbsp (optional)

Honey is also optional. The natural oil in date and almonds is enough bind them together. If you are sweet toothed, go ahead and enjoy the truffles with pure honey!

Dates Laddu
Dates Laddu

Preparation Method:

  • Roast almonds for 2-3 mins.
  • Boil water and soak almonds for 5 minutes (or even less).
  • Drain water if skin slips off the almonds easily else, allow it to soak for some more time.
  • Do not over soak almonds, it would reduce the crunchiness.
  • Mix pitted dates, almonds (with the skin peeled off), honey, salt, saffron strands, cinnamon and cardamom powder.
  • Beat in a food processor (or mixie) until mixture forms a thick paste.
  • Roll the mixture into balls.

To cover the Date Truffle with coconut:

  • Toast coconut and place it a plate.
  • Roll the date almond truffle/laddu in the toasted coconut flakes.

To make Date Burfi:You can even make this recipe as a burfi with little ghee

  • Instead of rolling the date almond mixture into balls, grease a plate with little flour or ghee and pat the mixture to form 1/2-1 inch thick sheet.
  • Cut it into small squares.

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6 replies on “Date Truffles | Date Laddu”

I am making this for this Navaratri…100% !!! Looks so yummy and the photography is making me drool right now!

Hello Anu!

I stumbled on your site while searching for nuts and dates laddus. I love the pictures on your site. A lot of effort seems to be spent on pictures and recipes. I wanted to bring to your attention about possible copyrights infringement. The reason I saw copy rights because I do not know if there is an agreements between you and the other shopping site.

Take a look at the picture at this site..
http://live.janatamarket.com/dry-fruit-laddu

Looking at the images, I figured right away that they were either borrowed (after seeking permission) or stolen.

Thank you very much for bringing this to my notice. Really appreciate it! The watermark in my images have been removed and being used without my knowledge!! Plagiarism at its best!!! I have added copyright information in my website too. Thanks again 🙂

Hello Anu:

You are very welcome! They had infringed your copyrights…plagiarism is a very mild word! Goo that you added copyright information on your site.

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