Kobbari(Coconut) Laddu

Kobbari (Coconut) Laddu is one of my all-time favorite sweet; whenever there is fresh coconut at home, my mother prepares these lovely laddu’s;

We got couple of coconut during vinayaka chavithi pooja and I have utilized them well in preparing kobbari laddu;

Ingredients:

1.    Grated coconut - 2 cups

2.    Milk – 1.5 cups

3.    Sweetened condensed milk – 180 grams

4.    Sugar – 4 tbsp, optional

5.    Cardamom – 4

6.    Ghee or butter – 1 tbsp to grease the plate

Method:

1.    Break coconut and remove kernel from shell;

2.    Cut coconut into small 1' pieces; Grate coconut in a mix grinder;

3.    Heat a heavy bottomed pan, add grated coconut, fry stirring on low flame for about 5 mins;

4.    Add milk to coconut, cook on medium flame stirring continuously;

5.    When bubbles appear in mixture, add sugar and sweetened condensed milk;

6.    Once the mixture is thick, add cardamom powder and combine well;

7.    Cook stirring till the mixture starts leaving the sides of the pan;

8.    Grease a plate with ghee or butter and transfer the mixture on to it;

9.    Spread the mixture evenly using ladle and set it aside for few minutes until its warm to touch;

10. Divide mixture into lemon sized balls and roll them properly to make laddu’s;

Notes:

1.    You can remove the brown portion (outer layer) of kernel using peeler if you want your laddu’s to be white in color;

2.    Continuous stirring of the mixture is very important;

3.    Smear ghee on your palm while rolling laddu to get smooth outer edges

4.    Traditional way of preparing these laddu’s uses only milk and takes very long time but I have used condenses milk to make it quickly;