Dark Chocolate Buckwheat Ladoos

Oh God!!! How I love Dark Chocolate. I do not have enough words to express my love for it. I always liked liked Ladoos as a kid so I decided to combine the two and came up with this new sweet dish. I initially planned to combine dark chocolate with regular wheat flour and make ladoos and then I found unused buckwheat flour still lying around in my larder and so I decided to replace wheat flour with buckwheat and believe me it tastes equally good or should I say better?

Delicious Flavors of Dark chocolate and healthy Buckwheat flour makes this Ladoo must try, do try and let me know how it turned out

Preparation Time: 15 mins Cooking Time: 9 mins Total Time: 24 mins

Servings: 3

Ingredients

• 1 cup buckwheat flour
• 1/3 cup ghee (Clarified Butter) + additional for greasing
• 3-4 tbsp powdered sugar – adjust 1 cup buckwheat flour
• 60 g dark chocolate chopped
• 4 tbsp chopped almonds or walnuts

Steps to cook

• Melt Ghee in a pan

• Add buckwheat flour

• Stir buckwheat flour until aromatic over low medium heat

• Add dark chocolate pieces and stir

• Add powdered sugar. Since I love flavour of dark chocolate I have added lesser sugar, adjust the sweetness as required.

• Stir the mixture continuously until dark chocolate completely melts and flour is well coated with dark chocolate

• Add in almonds and stir well. Switch off the heat

• Allow mixture to cool for 15 minutes

• Generously grease palm with ghee and gently shape into balls using one hand and between fists 5-6 times. Incase you are unable to make balls, add little melted ghee in it to bring it together

• Allow Laddos to cool completely, and store in airtight container