-100 grams sweet potato

-10 grams oats flour

-50 grams Kimia dates

-1 pinch nutmeg

-1 pinch cardamom

-50 ml raw organic honey

-1 pinch agar agar

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Step 1

Steam/cook sweet potato. Peel and mash them. Add oats flour and purred dates. Knead into a dough.

Step 2

Roll into small balls and bake for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. Turn over every 10 minutes.

Step 3 (For syrup)

Boil water and add a pinch of agar agar to it. Boil for 10 minutes. Once cooled, add honey, cardamom, nutmeg and saffron strands.

Step 4

Now add baked gulab jamun balls to the syrup and refrigerate. Serve cool.

This recipe is a healthier version of a popular Indian sweet. Refined wheat flour containing gluten is replaced with organic oats flour. Sweet potatoes and dates are added to get the desired consistency for the balls. Sugar syrup is made using honey and agar agar for the thickness, alternatively for white sugar.

One of iThrive’s biggest focus to teach anyone how to harness the healing power of food. In order to this, we have been creating innovative and delicious recipes that are filling, tasty and full of healing benefits. This one is just one of those recipes.