De-seed the cardamoms and powder them finely.

Clean the black sesame seeds and make sure it is free from husks and add it to a a wide wok. In medium flame dry roast the sesame till they puff up and nutty aroma wafts around.

Let the roasted sesame seeds cool down a bit, then add it in to mixer and powder it coarsely. As the sesame seeds ooze out oil, the powder becomes stiff. Include jaggery powder and grind together till the jaggery combines well with powdered sesame seeds.

Transfer this laddo mix to a wide bowl. Include broken cashews and cardamom powder.

Take handful of laddo mix and roll in to laddo shape.

Easy black sesame laddo is ready. Offer it to Lord Krishna and relish.

Make sure the black sesame seeds are roasted well otherwise the raw smell may ruin the taste of laddu.

Only after half grinding the sesame seeds include jaggery so that jaggery combines evenly with sesame.

For extra crunchiness you can add few roasted and broken ground nuts.

If you are making in large quantity then, you can roast them together but the process of grinding and rolling laddos should be done in batches.

The oil oozed out from sesame seeds is enough to tie the laddos. If you feel it is dry then you can include some ghee.