Have you tried this? Wheat flour balls
By Venkataraman
@venkataraman_vc (5293)
Chennai, India
October 5, 2012 12:13am CST
When I was in schools, my mother used to prepare Wheat flour balls and those were tasty. After a long time, I remembered it and tried it last week. It was reclaiming my old memories.
It's so healthy too.
It is an easy to prepare energetic dessert. It is enjoyable to have during tea time along with snacks.
Method of preparation:
Roast 250 grams of wheat flour.
Mix 200 grams of grated jaggery with the roasted flour. (Or you can add sugar too.)
Add 30 grams of ghee (or clarified butter) (slightly heat it up so that it flows freely.)
Mix well.
With the help of your palm, prepare ball shapes of your preferred size.
Serve with or without snacks and tea or coffee.
It's a simple one and so good for evening hunger.
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10 responses
@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
5 Oct 12
Yeah, we've made that Sooji laddooo too. That was long back. Just I've remembered this one. Next time I'll try sooji too.
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@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
5 Oct 12
This sounds good. I would have to change the measurements so that they make sense to my American mind, but the ingredients aren't a problem. I'm thinking that sugar in the raw would provide a texture similar to the jaggery.
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@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
6 Oct 12
It's available here in the States. From my experience, it is widely available here; even when I was in a fairly rural area, I could find it at my usual supermarkets.
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@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
6 Oct 12
Yes, powdered sugar and a little extra ghee would also do fine. Raw sugar, if available, would be almost similar to jaggery in texture and taste, but is it available? I mean, in stores?
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@rooftop (110)
• Malaysia
5 Oct 12
Hi, I am from Malaysia. I am sure i can get all the ingredients in your recipe. I am not a very good cook but I think I can manage that. I would like to try it one day. But after mixing the flour and ghee and shape them into balls...do i need to cook in anyway the wheat flour balls before serving? I am sorry to ask ..
@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
5 Oct 12
Since you roast the flour before making the ball, there is no need to cook or steam. Just mix all the ingredients and it will be easy to shape. (If needed little more ghee can be added. This ghee will be the binding agent as well as it gives good aroma.)
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@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
5 Oct 12
I think the ingredient 'jaggery' is confusing you. It's a by-product of sugarcane, so you can use plain sugar too as an alternate. It doesn't make a big difference in taste. However, if you can get powdered sugar, it will blend easily.
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@crimsonose80 (283)
• Canada
5 Oct 12
It's nice to try different kinds of food out there from different cultures. They are tasty and healthy. thanks for sharing your recipes to us but unfortunately we don't have jaggery here so I won't be able to try your mother's recipe.. In our country we tend to use rice of some kind to make desserts here..we call it here sticky rice buns..it's good with drinking tea or eating it on its own.
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@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
6 Oct 12
Jaggery and Sugar or derived from sugarcane. So, if you don't have jaggery, you can mix sugar and there is not much difference in the taste. Jaggery blends well, whereas we have to powder the sugar before we mix. And little extra ghee will make it fine.
Sticky rice bun sounds good. Is it simple? please share the recipe.
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@nirosha1984 (13)
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8 Oct 12
wow thanks,weat flour is very heathy,and ofcourse love tamil food.and olso i know most tamil foods are very good for health,enyway are you sure that you done it correctly?was it nice?thanks for your menu.i will try to prepare it and will tell you about the taste.ok,thanks lot
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@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
8 Oct 12
That's fine to hear. Yes, I did it correct and it was fine as did by my mother.
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@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
5 Oct 12
Hi venky
Great one. And as you know dussehra is just a few days away 
Would make it and surprise my wife when she is around and, during the days I have in between, I would be testing this dish so that when she is around, the serving is good
Great one. And as you know dussehra is just a few days away Would make it and surprise my wife when she is around and, during the days I have in between, I would be testing this dish so that when she is around, the serving is good1 person likes this
@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
5 Oct 12
Hi Sidhu
That's nice to hear.
Yesterday, my wife prepared laddoo with Fried Gram Flour (Buna Channa Flour) too and it was much more better than this atta laddoo. You try both. Fried Gram ladoo was little easier to shape.
That's nice to hear.
Yesterday, my wife prepared laddoo with Fried Gram Flour (Buna Channa Flour) too and it was much more better than this atta laddoo. You try both. Fried Gram ladoo was little easier to shape.1 person likes this
@mohkanari (1957)
• India
5 Oct 12
These type of preparations of food are less expensive easy and fast. At the same time tasty and nourishable too. Now preparation of food has become expensive time taking, since for the name of taste or fashion one or another ingredients are added. Day by day we are moving away from the beauty of simplicity.
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@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
5 Oct 12
I think one of the reasons is, slowly we have switched to Nuclear family lifestyle from joint family style. In a joint family elders would pass on the traditional values, which is very much missing now.
Today's youngsters are far ahead in technology and gadgets, but they do miss the traditional values.
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@rubyroy (824)
• India
5 Oct 12
That was a delicious and nutritious food for growing children.These days we depend on the shop to feed our children.These snacks are unhealthy and causes many distress to the children.The old home made goodies as evening snacks are not only tasty but also healthy for the children and grown ups.
@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
5 Oct 12
Yeah, I don't know when our lifestyle changed to these packed junks. But slowly it did.
I told my son about this ladoo and how my mom used to do it, he got anxious and it has become his favorite because he too can prepare it.
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@mrsuniega (786)
• Philippines
5 Oct 12
wow that is interesting. I think some of the ingredients you mention is not available her in the Philippines. I have not yet heard of your recipe but locally here in our country we had some sort of rice flour recipes. Some of our local recipes for rice flour includes puto, bibingka, suman and a lot more delicacies.
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@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
5 Oct 12
If you can't get Jaggery, you can use sugar. If it is powdered sugar that would be very good.
Rice flour balls? I've heard them but I'm going to look for those recipes now. Do you have any?
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