Delicious Tofu and mixed nuts Ladoo- vegan, gluten free.
This recipe is purely to showcase the importance and versatility of ‘Soy’ amidst the festive celebrations. Soy should actually be celebrated across the food world, but there are too many existing myths about a non existent dark side of soy.
Soy is a complete protein, provides all the amino acids and is nutrient dense with fiber, vitamins and minerals. Soy doesn’t contain estrogen and has beneficial effect in breast cancer, prostrate cancer. There is so much false information spread across the web and to clarify, the latest studies show that, soy has either a beneficial or neutral effect on human health, but no negative side effects. Harvard university has short summary about soy facts, if you are interested. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/soy/
Get cooking to make this quick, easy but super yummy ladoo using tofu, nuts of your choice this festive season and to provide nourishment to both body and soul. This is a plant based dessert and no animal products are involved ! Make it and take pride in that simple truth.
Delicious tofu and mixed nuts ladoo
Equipment
- blender or food processor
Ingredients
- 1 cup extra firm tofu drained and crumbled organic, non gmo
- 1/2 cup organic light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup coconut cream not coconut milk
- 1/3 cup almond flour (not almond meal)
- 1/2 cup coarsely ground mixed nuts of your choice
- 2 tsp cardamom powder
- pinch of salt
- 1 tsp dry rose petals
- chopped nuts to garnish
Instructions
- Place paper towels under and over a block of extra firm tofu, then place a weight on it and let it drain the water for a good 20 min. Then using your hands crumble it into smaller pieces. The finer you crumble it into, the better.
- Coarsely ground a mix of nuts of your choice. I used pistachios, cashews, almonds. You need 1/2 cup of this mixture.
- In a pan, on medium heat, add the crumbled tofu and sugar. Mix well and you will start to notice more moisture coming from the mixture as the sugar starts to heat up. Keep stirring. After about 5 min, add the nut mixture and cardamom powder. Add the pinch of salt as well.
- At about 8 min mark, add the coconut cream and continue to stir.
- Once you notice thickening of the mixture, add the almond flour, rose petals and mix well for 1 min. Final texture will be mostly dry with slight wetness enough to roll your ladoos. Turn off the stove and take the pan contents into a bowl, Let it cool for 3 min.
- Using your hands, make small balls with the ladoo mixture when its still very much warm. DO NOT wait till the mixture is cold, as it will become hard to roll a ladoo then.
- Garnish with chopped nuts, more dry rose petals.This recipe makes 10-12 laddos as in the picture.