Salted caramel coconut ladoo. The classic flavors of coconut ladoo and the contrasting sweet and salty caramel sauce inspires this quick and easy Indian sweets recipe. This melt-in-your-mouth treat is gorgeous and decadent, and fancy enough for your festive dessert menu.
Salted Caramel Coconut Ladoo
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This impressively easy to make ladoo is inspired from the classic Indian coconut ladoos, the popular sphere shaped sweets. Traditionally, coconut ladoos are made with lightly toasted coconut and condensed milk. However, in this recipe, we are going to replace condensed milk with caramel sauce. Salted caramel sauce, to be exact.
Desiccated coconut is lightly toasted before adding in the caramel sauce to accentuate the coconut flavor. Again, homemade sauce is simple to make, and features a divine combination of caramelized sugar, cream, and a pinch of salt.
Key Ingredients In Salted Caramel Ladoo
- Salted caramel sauce - This can be either homemade or store bought. With store bought sauce, add a pinch of sea salt to the regular caramel sauce to make it salted.
- Desiccated coconut - Store bought desiccated coconut is the way to go.
- Ground cardamom - It’s the most popular spice used in Indian sweets.
How To Make Salted Caramel Coconut Ladoo
Salted caramel sauce - Homemade or store bought. You can turn a can of caramel sauce into “salted” with a small pinch of sea salt. However, homemade sauce is easy to make, it’s just a simple combination of caramelized sugar, cream and sea salt. You can store this in the refrigerator for at least a week.
Ladoo - In this recipe, we are going to combine two ingredients, coconut and caramel sauce. The basic recipe is very similar to classic ladoo, but the key ingredient that’s going to bind the coconut crumbs together is salted caramel sauce. I also like to lightly toast the coconut before adding caramel sauce. Caramel sauce thickens as it cools down to room temperature creating the perfect texture to roll out delicious ladoos. Make a simple mixture using coconut and salted caramel sauce, and then roll out small sweet balls. Roll these ladoos in more coconut, and you’re done!
Salted Caramel Coconut Ladoo
Ingredients
Salted caramel sauce:
Caramel ladoo:
- 2 cups + ¼ cup desiccated coconut
- ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
Instructions
- Make salted caramel sauce. Allow to cool down to room temperature. Set aside.
- Heat a large frying pan over low heat.
- Add 2 cups desiccated coconut. Fry, stirring, for about 2 minutes or until the coconut is lightly toasted. Set aside.
- Combine together desiccated coconut, salted caramel sauce, and ground cardamom in a large bowl.
- Scoop out 2 tablespoons of the mixture and roll it into a ball. Repeat with the remaining mixture.
- Place ¼ cup coconut in a large plate. Roll the coconut ladoos in coconut pressing gently.
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Notes
- Caramel sauce - Add a pinch of sea salt to regular store bought caramel sauce.
- Temperature - Make sure all ingredients are at room temperature.
- Storage - Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3-4 days.
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