Murmura Laddu – Jaggery Rice Crispy
Murmura laddus are Murmura (Indian style rice crispy) coated with caramelized jaggery, perfect gluten-free vegan treats!
Whenever I see these laddus, I go back to my childhood!! My grand maas and my mom always had these murmura laddu handy in the house, specially during Uttarayan/Makar Sankranti in winter time in addition to peanut chikki! They are so so easy to make and takes least amount of ingredients. The main ingredients are murmura (crispy puffed up rice) and jaggery. Kids love them and they are in my opinion healthier than those store bough rice crispy treats. My kids only know of these “Desi rice crispy treats”. I am sure once they find out, they are going to be not so happy about it LOL. I use them for their lunch boxes side options/dessert option and they absolutely love it!
I always have these murmura laddus handy in my pantry during winter months, what about you?!?!
Happy and Healthy Eating!
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Murmura Laddu – Jaggery Rice Crispy
Ingredients
- 3 cup Murmura
- 1 cup Jaggery
- 1 tsp Ghee OR Coconut oil
- 1 pinch Baking Powder
Instructions
- Dry roast murmura in a heavy bottom pan on medium heat for 5-8 minutes or until they are very crispy, stirring it constantly.
- Once murmura are dry roasted, keep them aside and cool them down.
- In a heavy bottom pan, take either soft jaggery or very tiny pieces or hard jaggery along with ghee. Start melting them.
- Once melted, keep cooking jaggery on medium/high heat until it becomes very fluffy and changes color darker orange or red.
- At this point drop tiny amount of cooked jaggery in the bowl filled with cold water. If the jaggery sinks and forms a hard ball, it is ready for the laddus.
- At that point, add pinch of baking powder to jaggery, mix it very quickly and add prepared murmura.
- Turn the heat off, mix the murmura very well in the jaggery mix until all murmura are coated well.
- Start forming laddus as soon as you can handle the laddu mix. The longer you wait the harder it gets to form the laddu.
- You can make chikki with this mix also instead of laddus by spreading the mix on greased pan and let it cool down. Once cooled down, cut or break in small squares.
- Store them in air tight containers once ready!