SATTU HEARTS

Sattu hearts
Sattu hearts made with the roasted chana dal flour are highly nutritious and healthy apart from being the absolute tasty sweet treat they are!
These healthy peda/ hearts need just 4-5 ingredients and 10 mins of your time to make and do not require any expert skills if you happen to be a beginner.

Sattu flour(i.e. Chickpea flour or Bengal gram flour is very new to me, I have literally never used it in a recipe. Every year one of my relatives send sattu for the kids and they relish it, so I decided to try it out myself this time.

In this recipe, I use ghee from amrutumindia https://www.amrutamindia.com/ magic element that made my sattu hearts amazing.

INGREDIENTS:
Sattu flour – 1 cup
Sugar – 3/4 cup
Ghee – 1/2 cup
Cardamom – 4
Cashew nuts – 10
Almonds or badam – 10

INSTRUCTIONS:

In a mixie jar, grind both sugar and cardamom to a fine powder.
Keep aside.
In a pan, add 1 tsp ghee, roast chopped cashew nuts and almonds to a golden brown, drain into a bowl and keep aside.
Add the remaining ghee and let it melt. Reduce the flame completely.
Add sattu flour and cook for 2-3 mins stirring continuously with a spatula.
Take the pan off the stove and let it cool down to room temperature.
Add powdered sugar, roasted nuts to sattu mixture and mix to combine well a slight rub with your hands.
After some time the mixture becomes very light; this is the right time to make hearts out of the dough
Take a small portion, the size of a golf ball and roll between your palms and make hearts using a cookie cutter to make Sattu hearts.
Decorate with Kesar tika and dry fruits.
Arrange on a plate one next to the other.
Sattu hearts is ready to serve.