For the second day of sweets without refined ingredients, I have easy breezy recipe you can try for this Diwali. Full of peanuts flavour, these tiny balls are totally awesome. If you like kadalai urundai we get in petty shops, then try this. The only cooking involved is roasting coconut and peanuts. Other than that, this is a perfect recipe for a beginner. You could never go wrong. Ever since I made Thala Guli, I have been thinking of its peanut version. If you have not yet read my post, do read it. It has only three ingredients and makes a delicious treat in minutes. The main ingredient there is sesame.
My aunt used to make a similar version but with just peanuts. I combined both recipes to make this. I had just 1/2 cup of peanuts so made a tiny batch. Roast the peanuts, remove skin. Roast coconut until dry. Then grind everything together. The oil from the peanuts combined with jaggery will make it easy to shape the balls. You don’t need a binding agent in the recipe. I have reserved a few to distribute along with other Diwali sweets to friends.
Makes 12 Balls
Ingredients:
Peanuts – 1/2 cup
Grated Coconut – 1/2 cup
Jaggery/ Naatu Sakkarai – 4 tbs
Cardamom Powder – 1/4 tsp
Procedure:
Roast peanuts until they are golden.
Allow them to cool. Remove the skin and keep aside.
Roast grated coconut until golden.
Now add peanuts, coconut, jaggery and cardamom powder in a mixer jar.
Grind it until the peanuts start letting out oil and the mixture is clumpy.
Transfer it to a bowl.
Take small portions and shape into a tight ball.
Repeat with the remaining mixture.
Cool before storing in airtight box.
Kadalaiparuppu Thengai Urundai / Peanut Coconut Ball Recipe
Ingredients
- Peanuts - 1/2 cup
- Grated Coconut - 1/2 cup
- Jaggery/ Naatu Sakkarai - 4 tbs
- Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp
Instructions
- Roast peanuts until they are golden.
- Allow them to cool. Remove the skin and keep aside.
- Roast grated coconut until golden.
- Now add peanuts, coconut, jaggery and cardamom powder in a mixer jar.
- Grind it until the peanuts start letting out oil and the mixture is clumpy.
- Transfer it to a bowl.
- Take small portions and shape into a tight ball.
- Repeat with the remaining mixture.
- Cool before storing in airtight box.
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Feel like gobbing some urundais rite now, seriously i miss this balls now.. My aunt makes the same way too. Makes me nostalgic.
A definite protein punch there in that cute bite. Interesting combination of peanut and coconut.
Love these nut-based laddus. So easy to make and super tasty and healthy too. Will try this for Karthigai Deepam.
The coconut flavor along with the peanuts would be so amazing. That is a perfect combination of flavor and also healthy ingredients in a dessert. Such a simple and quick to make recipe.
These peanut laddus are my favorite. Takes less time and so nutritious. kids love them and add value to our health if consumed daily. tempting texture.
Those peanut balls sounds awesome, love the addition of coconut. I can imagine how delicious it would be. But by reading the title “Kadalai paruppu”, thought it’s made from channa dal. Is peanuts also known by the name “kadalai paruppu”?? Never heard it before.
Thank you Sandiya. Yeah, we call groundnuts also as kadalai paruppu. So when buying we call channa dal as kulamu kadala paruppu. I guess this slang is particular to Madurai and Theni area.
what a simple recipe with just 4 ingredients – and looks utterly delicious!