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Aantu unde or dryfruit laddoo is a famous sweet in karnataka! This nutritious laddoo is a must be in the diet of young mothers, three months after delivery. This surely helps new mothers to recover back to their original health.
I have tasted this unde many times but never bothered to prepare at home. But now I learnt the method for Asha’s RCI karnataka!Thanks Asha, I have learnt so many new authentic karnataka recipes because of you!
On thursday when all the people were shopping for Gowri, Ganesha festival, I went around searching for aantu or cooking gum used in this Laddoo. It is available in Granthike Aangadi in Sampige road, Malleshwaram.
All ingredients used in Aantu Unde
Cooking gum or Aantu after dryroasting.
Ingredients
- Cashew – 1 cup
- Badam- – 1 cup
- Dry grapes – 1cup
- Dates – 1 cup
- Dessicated coconut – 1 cup
- Cooking gum (Aantu)- 1 cup
- Sugar – 1 cup
- Ghee – 1 cup
- Cardamom – 6 nos
Method
- Chop the badam, cashew nuts, dates and dry grapes to small pieces.
- Dry roast the cooking gum in a heavy bottomed pan, on a low flame till it puffs up as shown in picture. Crush a little when cool.
- Roast the badam and cashew with 1 table spoon ghee till light golden.
- Powder the dessicated coconut, sugar and cardamom.
- Melt the ghee and combine all ingredients in a large bowl and mix well.
- *Make into 2 inch radius balls and store in an air tight container.
The most difficult part is to make the undes. Chopping the dry grapes and dates to fine pieces helps in binding.
You can use sugar as per taste.
You can add any other dry fruit of your choice.
Can be stored for months.
Update: Since dry grapes (raisins) are indispendable for the making of these laddoos I am sending this to Swapna of Swad of India for AFAM – Grapes. “A Fruit a Month” (AFAM) is a monhtly event that rounds up recipes of a particular fruit.
Latha,
It looks so delicious,
Even I had it after my son’s delivery in India.
When I was a kid my dad used to bring from Hubli-Dharwad.In Us I have to look for antu.
Great Entry
Latha, thank you for taking trouble to cook all these for me and RCI K!:))
Looks delicious,wish I could grab some. I remember eating these but never made it home even in India.Great entry.I will be proud to display!:)
Happy G-G Day:))
before anyone comes up with this question:) I suppose we get the gum only back home… any suitable substitute for this akka? I have had this in Bangalore (my parents moved back to chennai just last month) and it’s so damn nutritious:)
you get cooking gum even here in US. You have to add a few more things like walnuts, figs , black and golden raisins, pista, apricots etc. using coconut reduces its shelf life. my grandma always skipped the coconut and made it and used to give us a handful of coconut while eating . hence everything works out well.
nice recipe and traqditional sweets are a dying art. lovely post
A healthy new laddu latha. Lovely entry. Viji
Wow!!Simply great URUNDAS!!
A post a day!!That too with pics..!!!GREAT GOING..Lathamma!!!!
Sooo nice of you to accept my simple pics for the entry!!Hugs!!
Inimel seyyara items ellam ethukkum koncham yeduthu vainge…veetukku vanthalum varuven..LOL..
I must tell my sister about this. She is going to me a new mom soon 🙂
Hi Latha,
I am a new blogger. I tried your kozhukattai with different filling. They came out well. Thanks for the recipe.
wow……..looks delicious 🙂
I dont find gum here. Its too expensive too. your version looks beautiful. I too have a dry fruit laddu in my blog.
untina undde yum.. love this 🙂 i make normally like burfis without th egum i haven’t tried to search for it here though :)wonderfull entry
Yummy and delicious Latha.
We make with dates and cashew. Perfect shape and nicely arranged.
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hi i’m new this site really good you know edible gum nutritions thanks
What is antu? and why is it used for making the balls
Thank-You
Prabha Murthy
d of suger jaggery syrup instead of suger to make unde still delicius
Hi i am new to this site..where do we get this antu??
really a great entry latha,i like all u r entries.thank u.
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Hi I want to try this recipe. Can u plz tell me were in malleshwaram v get antu? Is it in 8th cross?
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