Cuisine: Jharkhand
Category: Snack
Prep: 10 min
Cook: 5 min
Serves: 8
Difficulty: Easy
🌿 Vegetarian
Sattu mixed with jaggery and ghee rolled into dense energy balls — the portable high-protein daily snack of Jharkhand farmers and labourers.
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups sattu (roasted gram flour)
- 3/4 cup jaggery — finely grated
- 3 tbsp ghee
- 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
- 1/4 tsp dry ginger powder (sonth)
- 2 tbsp desiccated coconut
- 2 tbsp sesame seeds — dry-roasted
Method
- Combine sattu, grated jaggery, cardamom powder, dry ginger powder, desiccated coconut and dry-roasted sesame seeds in a bowl. Mix well.
- Add liquid ghee. Mix until the mixture comes together and holds shape when pressed firmly.
- If too dry add 1/2 tbsp more ghee. If too wet add 1 tbsp more sattu.
- Shape into balls using 2 heaped tbsp per ball.
- Press firmly and repeatedly in the palm.
- Refrigerate 20 minutes to set. Store in an airtight container for up to 3 weeks at room temperature.