Desiccated coconut Ladoos with Plum Flavour recipe is a recipe of Ladoo made using fresh plum & homemade plum jam. The recipe is very easy and simple with less cooking and preparation time. So if you are looking for a quick Dessert recipe or a recipe for Ladoos try this “Desiccated coconut Ladoos with Plum flavour.”

How to make Desiccated coconut Ladoos with Plum flavour

Desiccated coconut is the simplest which is easily available in the market and has a beautiful taste other than fresh dry coconut. Plum gives a sweet and sour taste to the Ladoos also it makes the dish more attractive by giving a nice reddish pink color to the Ladoos.

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Basic tips for making a perfect recipe of Desiccated coconut Ladoos with plum flavour.

• The most important and common thing to check for the freshness of the desiccated coconut. For this observe the color, if the color has changed from white to yellow that means there is mold growth and it should be discarded.
• Next thing is to check its smell. If the desiccated coconut doesn’t smell the original aroma and has somewhat sour unpleasant smell that means it has absorbed moisture and there is mold growth. If the smell is mild with no color change simply roast the desiccated coconut in a pan on low flame for few minutes. See that the color doesn’t change.
• Always store the desiccated coconut in an airtight container.

• Another main ingredient which is the flavour of the Ladoos is plum jam. In this recipe of “Desiccated coconut Ladoos with plum flavour” plum jam used is homemade (which will be explained later). So try to use freshly prepared plum jam of course when plums are in the season. Homemade jam has a nice and dense reddish pink color and moreover the taste is much better than the market one.
• While making the plum jam at home add the sugar according to the taste of the plum available. Sometimes the plums are very sweet in taste and require very less amount of sugar (just for adding thickness) but many a times the plum are sour and sweet in taste. At this time the quantity of sugar changes.

• The plums I used in this recipe were sweet & sour so accordingly the amount of sugar is mentioned in the ingredients. So please check the taste of the plums before adding the sugar while preparing the jam at home. Also these Ladoos can be made using readymade plum jam available in the market.
• Avoid over cooking of the ingredients or else the Ladoos will be very sticky or hard. Overcooking of the ingredients will lead to overcooking of sugar in the condensed milk which makes the sugar more thick, hard and sticky.

Some of my other Dessert recipes

Bread Halwa/ Bread pudding 

Fruit cream

Gajar ka Halwa/Carrot pudding

So keeping the tips in mind let’s start with our recipe of Desiccated coconut Ladoos with Plum Flavour

Ingredients:

For making fresh plum Jam

• Plums – 10 to 12
• Sugar – 3 tbsp
• Butter (optional) – ½ tsp

For making the Ladoos

• Plum jam – ¼ cup
• Milkmaid/condensed milk – 3 tbsp
• Desiccated coconut – 1 cup+2 tbsp
• Butter (salted) – 1 tbsp

Method:

For preparing the plum jam

• Wash and dry the plums.
• Peel off the skin for good texture of the jam. 
• Roughly chop the plums and remove the seeds.

• In a pan add chopped plum and sugar.
• Cook the plum on low flame till the sugar melts.
• If the sugar is sticking to the pan add some butter or a tsp of water, the sugar will start to melt. So keep the flame on low till the sugar melts otherwise the sugar will burn.
• Now cook the plum till it becomes soft. Smash the plum in between so that it gets easily and evenly cooked.
• When the jam is thick switch of the gas.
• Pass the jam through a sieve to remove the skin.

For making the Ladoos

• In a pan add butter.
• To the butter add milkmaid/condensed milk.
• Cook for few seconds. Then add desiccated coconut and freshly prepared plum jam.
• Cook for 5 minutes on low to medium flame. Stir continuously.

• Remove the pan from the gas. Wait for few minutes and when the dough is cooled enough to handle, make the Ladoos by taking some portion of the mixture in your palm and rolling between the palms to form balls.

• If the mixture seems to be thin or not able to roll into Ladoos, replace the mixture back into the pan and add some desiccated coconut. It will depend upon the consistency of the jam and small amount change in using the condensed milk.
• Do not keep the mixture for completely cooling otherwise it will be difficult to mould the Ladoos.

• Let the Ladoos cool down to room temperature and enjoy.