Ellu Urundai | Ellu Laddu

Ellu Urundai is an easy quick and simple laddu made for any festivals. This ladoo can be made using just 2 ingredients sesame seeds, jaggery and flavored with cardamom. Ellu urundai recipe with step by step pictures and video for easy understanding.

Ellu Urundai is one simple laddu we usually make on vinayagar chaturthi. This recipe for ellu urundai is quite easy to make and gets done in few minutes if you have the ingredients in hand.With just 2 ingredients you cab make this easy and delicious laddu.

About Ellu Urundai

Ellu urundai is a simple laddu made using just 2 basic ingredients available in your kitchen. Roast sesame seeds until it pops out and a nutty aroma comes, switch off and cool down. Transfer to a mixer jar, pulse it few times until its coarse then add jaggery and cardamom grind it until oil releases from sesame seeds and is easy to hold and shape into laddus. Transfer to a bowl, mix it well then shape as laddus.

The traditional method to make ellu urundai is by roasting in a kadai, cooling down. Then grind it using a big mortar and pestle called as ural ullakai.

This is called by different names ellu urundai in tamil, til laddu in hindi, sesame seeds laddu in english. Ellu (எள்) is sesame seeds, it has many benefits. Sesame oil is a popular ingredient used all over the world. Sesame oil is called nalla ennai in tamil which translates to ‘nalla’ meaning good and ‘ennai’ meaning oil – ‘nalla ennai’ which is further abbreviated and called ‘nallennai’. This oil has so many health benefits that in olden days our elders used to cook using this oil.

Ellu Urundai Ingredients

• Sesame seeds : You can use either black sesame seeds or white sesame seeds. If using black sesame seeds, check for speck rinse it well dry it for a while then start roasting. Both black and white sesame seeds tastes equally good.
• Jaggery : Choose organic clean jaggery. As we are going to use jaggery as such without making syrup and straining you have to make sure its very clean.

Check out other laddu recipes:

• Rava Ladoo , Maa Ladoo , Moong Dal Ladoo
• Boondi Ladoo , Besan Ladoo , Peanut Ladoo,
• Aval Ladoo and Atta Ladoo

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How to make Ellu Urundai Step by Step

1.Take sesame seeds in a pan or kadai.

2.Dry roast it for 2 minutes or so.

3.It will start to pop out. Roast it until golden and nutty aroma comes. Switch off.

4.Allow it to cool.

5.Transfer to mixer jar.6.First grind this to a coarse mixture.

7.Then add jaggery, cardamom to it.

8.Again grind it until oil releases from sesame seeds.

9.The mixture should be slightly coarse and moist.10. The mixture should not be crumbly, it should be easy to hold and shape. If it does not hold shape then pulse it few more times until it is well combined and holds shape. 11.Transfer to a bowl, mix it well.12.Shape into laddus.

Expert Tips

• Make sure you first grind sesame coarsely then add jaggery to it for even grinding.
• I didnt add ghee or oil, the oil leaving from the sesame was just enough to form balls.But if you want you can add 1 or 2 teaspoon of ghee.
• You can use black or white sesame for making these ladoos.
• You can add ghee roasted chopped nuts too.