What better way to celebrate Diwali, which is just around the corner, than by cooking something special and delicious for your loved ones? Make delicious and nutritious Diwali sweets with hemp to fill your home with a beautiful aroma during this festival of lights.
Try these recipes:-
Hemp Besan Ladoo
Ingredients:
- 1 cup besan/gram flour
- A fourth Cup of Ghee
- Half cup of powdered sugar
- 1 tsp hemp hearts
- Half tsp cardamom powder
- 1 tsp hemp powder
- 10 almonds to garnish
Method:
- Dry roast the besan over a medium heat for about 10-15 minutes and keep stirring.
- The raw taste should not be there.
- Add ghee and mix well.
- Cook the besan until the fat separates for about 8-10 minutes and turn off the heat.
- Add sugar, cardamom powder and hemp powder. Mix well so that no lumps form.
- Let the mixture cool completely. When the mixture has cooled, add hemp hearts.
- Grease your hands with ghee and start forming laddoos. Make smooth and round laddoos. Decorate with almonds.
- Serve or store in an airtight container.
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Hemp-soaked Nankhatai
Ingredients:
- 1 fourth cup all-purpose flour (175 grams)
- 2 tablespoons fine Rava (semolina) 25 grams
- 1 tablespoon hemp flour
- Half a cup of powdered sugar (80 grams)
- 1/2 cup ghee (115 grams)
- half teaspoon salt
- Half teaspoon cardamom powder
- 2 teaspoons grated pistachios or nuts of your choice
- 1 tablespoon Hemp hearts
Method:
- Sift maida (all-purpose flour) into a bowl. Keep it aside.
- In a bowl, beat ghee and sugar with a spoon or beat until creamy, light and pale.
- Add all purpose flour, hemp flour, Sooji, salt and cardamom powder to the ghee sugar mixture.
- Mix everything with a spatula and then use your hands to bring the dough together. Do not knead the dough.
- If the dough looks dry, add a teaspoon of ghee and gently knead the dough until it comes together.
- Let the dough rest covered in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
- Mixing ghee and flour for nankhatai dough.
- Squeeze a lime-sized portion of the dough. Roll it between your palms into a smooth round shape. Flatten them a bit.
- Place it on the baking tray lined with baking paper.
- Repeat with the rest of the cookie dough.
- Space them 1 inch apart as they will expand as they bake.
- Using a knife, create a criss-cross pattern in the center. You can also make a small notch in the center instead of a crisscross pattern.
- Place in the fridge for another 15 minutes.
- Preheat your oven to 190 degrees C.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 15 to 16 minutes. It may take you a little less or more time. Pay attention after 13 minutes.
- Sprinkle over some grated pistachios and rose petals and hemp hearts.
Double Chocolate Chip Hemp Heart Cookies
Ingredients:
- Half cup of liquid coconut oil
- A quarter cup of almond, soy, or rice milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup coconut or brown sugar
- 1 cup hemp seeds, divided
- 1 cup chocolate chips (semi-sweet or vegan)
- 2 cups gluten-free OR all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Half a teaspoon of kosher salt
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Place coconut oil, almond milk, vanilla, coconut sugar, 3/4 cup hemp seeds and 1/2 cup chocolate chips in a blender and puree for 30 seconds or until small pieces remain, but mixture is creamy.
- In a separate large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Add the chocolate mixture to the flour mixture and stir until the ingredients are completely combined. Stir in the remaining chocolate chips and hemp seeds.
- Use a small ice cream scoop or 2 tablespoon measure to place cookies on a Silpat or parchment-lined baking sheet. Use the heel of your hand to gently press down cookies and shape them into a circle.
- Bake cookies 11 minutes for softer cookies and 13-14 minutes for crispy cookies.
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