Banana Date Laddoos

A power packed laddoo with the goodness of dates and bananas, loaded with cashews, almonds and walnuts. for the crunch I have used edible gum which is called dink in Marathi and gond in Hindi. It is a resin collected from the bark of the axle-wood tree. Available in the market in the form of small transluscent pearls which can be roasted or fried to use in dishes. I have dry roasted them till they popped and became crisp. They are highly nutritious. They generate heat and so used mostly in winters.

Ingredients

Step1
Make a coarse powder of 1/4 cup of walnuts, almonds and cashews and keep aside

Step 2
1 ripe banana mashed
8 seedless dates, ground to a coarse paste
1/2 cup dry roasted  pearls of edible gum ( roast till the pearls pop to become crisp)
2 tspns of clarified butter
In a pan take, saute  all the above ingredients till they become into a semi hard mixture and keep it ready.

Step 3
In a mixing bowl take the Step 1mixture and add
1/4 cup each of walnuts, almonds and cashews made into a fine powder, mix well, make equal sized balls or laddoos, roll them in the step 1 mixture and savour.