The season turns. The air suddenly smells of joy; of ghee and silk and gainda phool. Festivals, celebrations, smoke and incense. And ladoos, piled high on a silver thaal, beckoning you to take one.
The season of joy is the season of ladoos. And not just ordinary ladoos, but Ammiji’s homemade ladoos, with the goodness of unprocessed, natural sweeteners and pure fragrant desi ghee. Ammiji’s ladoos are a throwback to a time when living was slow and pleasures small. They’re evocative of the perfume of autumn and of the nostalgia of your childhood.
Ammiji’s homemade ladoos are made with premium ingredients. We use pure desi ghee and organic raw sugar or jaggery. Each addition is selected carefully, aimed to contribute to taste as well as nutrition. There’s a reason our grandmothers made ladoos at home – and Ammiji’s ladoos are proof of that.
The besan ladoos and the ragi til ladoos are both gluten free. The ragi til ladoos contain organic jaggery as a sweetener while the other three use organic raw sugar or desi khand. You can find out more about the ladoos here:
Ammiji’s Besan Ladoos
Ammiji’s Panjeeri Ladoos
Ammiji’s Atta Til Ladoos
Ammiji’s Ragi Til Ladoos
These 4 varieties come packaged in an attractive gift box that will grace any occasion at your home. Give the gift of good health this season – gift Ammiji’s ladoos to your loved ones. Because nothing shows you care as much as these.
Ingredients:
Besan Ladoo: Gram Flour, Desi Ghee, Raw Sugar, Almonds
Panjeeri Ladoo: Wholewheat Flour, Desi Ghee, Raw Sugar, Almonds, Edible Gum, Flame of the Forest, Chironji
Atta Til Ladoo: Wholewheat Flour, White Sesame, Desi Ghee, Raw Sugar, Edible Gum, Flame of the Forest
Ragi Ladoo: Ragi Flour, White Sesame, Desi Ghee, Jaggery, Almonds, Edible Gum, Flame of the Forest
Good For: 1 month
Net Weight: 500 gms
Chocolate is sheer love, and who are we to resist the lure of love? Made with a few sarcastic rejoinders from Ammiji ringing in our ears (she is not too fond of chocolate), this jar is heaven. A ganache, a dessert topping, a smoothie maker, a sandwich filling – this is a multipurpose spread or sauce. With the texture of silk and the consistency of molasses, Ammiji’s jar of chocolate will make your heart sing happy songs.
This is made from pure dark chocolate. And it has undertones of caramel that complement the chocolate perfectly.
No trans fats and no preservatives make this jar not only sinful, but a guilt-free sinful. Sin without the guilt. Get it?
This is made at home in small batches to ensure freshness each time you order.
The season of joy. When the mornings are as crisp and golden as apples and the evenings twinkle and smile through the haze. When festivals and special occasions are just an excuse for indulgence and happiness. When the cool nip in the air demands warming from the inside. And when the sweetness of life is reciprocated by the sweetness on your plate.
The season of joy is the season of ladoos. And not just ordinary ladoos, but Ammiji’s Homemade ladoos, with the goodness of unprocessed, natural sweeteners and pure fragrant desi ghee. Ammiji’s ladoos are a throwback to a time when living was slow and pleasures small. They’re evocative of the perfume of autumn and of the nostalgia of your childhood.
Ammiji’s Atta Til Ladoos are not only deliciously crunchy because of oodles of sesame seeds, but they’re a powerhouse of nutrition too. Sesame seeds are anti-aging and good for bone health. And when you combine them with the rejuvenating properties of kamarkas, gond and desi ghee, it results in a superfood that will keep you healthy and give you reason to indulge.
They make the perfect, guilt-free sweet treats during the festive season and beyond it too. They come packaged in a bright box, making them perfect for that special gift for your loved ones. And you can be sure that each ladoo inside that box is shaped with love and packed with care. Ammiji’s ladoos will be the perfect post-meal treat, anytime indulgence, or the special occasion bhog.
We use organic raw sugar in these ladoos – nothing to mar the wholesomeness of them!
Ingredients: Wholewheat Flour, White Sesame, Desi Ghee, Raw Sugar, Edible Gum, Flame of the Forest
Good For: 1 month
Net Weight: 500 gms
Ammiji likes jam on her toast now and then – especially with a cup of sugarless chai. She’s never really made her own jam though. When asked why, she sniffed and said, “English grandmothers make jams. Indian grandmothers make chutneys.” (Yes, she makes us roll our eyes on a regular basis.) She has firmly disassociated herself with any jam we make, but she’ll lift up the jar and inspect it with her hawk eye when it is presented to her.
So it was with this jam. “What do you mean by ‘brandied’?”, she asked. When we told her that the jam had a bit of brandy, her only answer was to put the jar down on the table with a definite snap. “Do what you want with your English jams and English grandmothers!”, she said. We’re taking that as grudging permission. 😀
Summer means that the market is flooded with beautiful, ripe summer fruit. And the most attractive of these (besides the much-loved mangoes) are the cherries – sweet, plump, juicy cherries, glistening a bright red or a deep maroon. So we took those cherries, soaked them in brandy overnight, and cooked a chunky jam out of it!
Our Brandied Cherry Jam has the perfectly spreadable consistency and each bite will give you a few pieces of juicy, sweet cherries in your mouth. It’s slightly boozy from the premium brandy and we’ve let the sweet tartness of the cherries shine through by limiting the amount of sugar we put in it. The fragrance is heady with brandy with a touch of pure vanilla. The texture is achieved by letting the fruit slow-cook and release its own pectin. There is no added packaged pectin or preservatives. What you get is real fruit, turned into a jam in small batches, the old-fashioned away.
The cherry jam tastes fantastic spread on toast, achieves excellence when served with scones and hits sublime when paired with cheese and crackers. Layer your cakes with it or dollop it onto ice-cream sundaes. What you do with it is totally you!
Note: Seasonal item. Will be available only till the fruit is available!
Ingredients: Cherries, sugar, brandy, lemon juice, vanilla extract.
The earth turns yet again, the trees lose their leaves and then break out in a flurry of new leaves and flowers. Spring arrives and brings with it the fragrance of newness, of gulmohar and semal and pansies; of gulaal and dust and raw milk. And before you know it, Holi is around the corner and with it, colour returns to a still sombre earth.
And as the earth changes its covering, our tastes adjust accordingly. Gone are the warm, rich tastes of winter and the mouth craves something sweet, yet not overly so, something light yet rich, something crisp yet soft and something decadent yet traditional. Yes, we crave the sweet of the spring – Mawa Gujiya, shining with silver varq and sugar syrup, smelling to the heavens with saffron and elaichi. But then, we go a step further, and add a believable twist to the story; we infuse our gujiya with homemade Gulkand – yes, the same Gulkand that forms the base of our famed and bestselling Gul Bombs!
Ammiji’s Gulab Gujiya is made at home, in our kitchen with the best ingredients we could find. It’s delicately sweet and stuffed with as much stuffing as we could manage. Of course it’s fried – there are some things that are sacrosanct and should not be messed with, in our opinion. There are almonds and pistachios and cashews and melon seeds; there’s also mace and nutmeg flavouring the inside. And there’s gulkand, sweetening the inside and making the outside smell of roses. And inside and outside, it tastes of pure love.
Bite into one and you’ll feel the crispness of the coating juxtaposed with the sweetly melting interior. Bite into one and you’ll feel the richness of the mawa that smells of roses, the luxuriousness of the nuts crushed with gulkand and the exoticness of the spices complimenting the sweetness. Bite into one and you’ll feel joy – the joy of a spring garden, of freshly blooming desi gulab and of renewal and of hope. Bite into one and you’ll feel what Ammiji’s love is all about.
Ingredients: Mawa, Maida, Sugar, Desi Ghee, Gulkand, Pistachios, Almonds, Cashews, Melon seeds, Green Cardamom, Mace, Nutmeg, Saffron, Pure silver foil
Weight: Each box contains 10 pieces. Approximate weight is 600 gms.
The earth turns yet again, the trees lose their leaves and then break out in a flurry of new leaves and flowers. Spring arrives and brings with it the fragrance of newness, of gulmohar and semal and pansies; of gulaal and dust and raw milk. And before you know it, Holi is around the corner and with it, colour returns to a still sombre earth.
And as the earth changes its covering, our tastes adjust accordingly. Gone are the warm, rich tastes of winter and the mouth craves something sweet, yet not overly so, something light yet rich, something crisp yet soft and something decadent yet traditional. Yes, we crave the sweet of the spring – Mawa Gujiya, shining with silver varq and sugar syrup, smelling to the heavens with saffron and elaichi.
Ammiji’s Kesar Gujiya is made at home, in our kitchen with the best ingredients we could find. It’s delicately sweet and stuffed with as much stuffing as we could manage. Of course it’s fried – there are some things that are sacrosanct and should not be messed with, in our opinion. There are almonds and pistachios and cashews and melon seeds; there’s also mace and nutmeg flavouring the inside. There’s silver foil and sugar syrup and sliced nuts and kesar strands adorning the outside. And inside and outside, it tastes of pure love.
Bite into one and you’ll feel the crispness of the coating juxtaposed with the melting interior. Bite into one and you’ll feel the richness of the mawa, the luxuriousness of the nuts and the exoticness of the spices. Bite into one and you’ll feel joy – the joy of spring, of renewal and of hope. Bite into one and you’ll feel what Ammiji’s love is all about.
Good for: 15 days. Refrigerate after receiving.
Ingredients: Mawa, Maida, Sugar, Desi Ghee, Pistachios, Almonds, Cashews, Melon seeds, Green Cardamom, Mace, Nutmeg, Saffron, Pure silver foil
Weight: Each box contains 10 pieces. Approximate weight is 500 gms.
If you’re a Punjabi and you’ve delivered a child, you would remember being bombarded with highly nutritious foods that were supposed to provide you the perfect post-partum nutrition. And we’re sure Panjeeri was on top of that list. Ammiji’s way to make Panjeeri even MORE nutritious – she firmly believes she can do that to any dish! – was to make her Panjeeri with moong dal instead of atta or wheat flour.
This Panjeeri was pulled out of Ammiji’s cupboard and dished out to her grand children on any pretext. You have a cold? Have Panjeeri. It’s raining outside? Have Panjeeri. You’re going for a trip? Take Panjeeri with you. You’re in a bad mood? Eat some Panjeeri na! This Panjeeri was the mantra that was supposed to make everything better. And we grandchildren lapped it all up.
Ammiji’s Moong Dal Panjeeri is pure moong dal – no atta, no suji, no other grain. And of course, it has oodles of pure desi ghee and nuts and makhanas. The sugar used for this Panjeeri is raw and organic – we could have preferred using jaggery but Ammiji was insistent that the Panjeeri wouldn’t be crunchy without the sugar. As she said, “Cheeni vi khaani chahidi hai kadi kadi! Haddiyan bandi hain!”
Use it as your post-meal meetha or your daily spoon of goodness along with breakfast. And rest assured that what you’re consuming is pure protein-packed, gluten-free goodness.
Ingredients: Moong Dal, Raw Organic Sugar, Cashews, Almonds, Pistachios, Melon Seeds, Fox Nuts, desi Ghee.
Net Weight: 150 gm
Consume within one month of receiving the jar.
Food is that thread that brings it all together. It doesn’t matter what season it is, or how small an occasion it is – when you have good food on the table, you’re more blessed than you realize. Food is happiness – it’s the delightful dash and dot at the end of an exclamation. It has the power to create good memories or to help obliterate bad ones. Food is life. And when you give the gift of food, you’re gifting pure joy.
Keeping that in mind, we’ve curated a set of Gift Boxes for you. Give them as gifts, or order a combination for yourself to save money! Each box will contain 4 jars, filled with Ammiji’s delicious goodness. And the gift box itself is an elegant, reusable box made of solid wood that will last you a long time and be useful in myriad ways.
Go on. Gift joy 🙂
Ammiji’s Sweet Treats Box is a collection designed to please even the pickiest sweet tooth. This Gift Box contains the following: (click on product to check out details)
- Gul Bombs: 2 jars (70 gm each) of our best-selling refreshing rose sweets.
- Jar of Chocolate: (100 gm) Gooey and chocolatey!
- Whiskey Caramel Sauce: (200 gm) Slightly boozy, very addictive!