Recipe: How to make til ke ladoo
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 01-12-2022
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Til ka ladoo is a traditional winter sweet. This is a simple recipe
made with til and jaggery. Til is sesame seed and jaggery is unrefined
cane sugar. Til (sesame seeds) provide heat and energy to the body which
are both necessary to beat the cold.
Ingredients
1 cup
sesame seeds, til, 1 cup jaggery or gur broken in small pieces,
available at Indian grocery store, 3 tablespoons clarified butter, ghee,
1/2 teaspoon crushed cardamom, 1/2 cup water
How to make
Grease
a plate and set aside. In a frying pan roast the sesame seeds on medium
heat stirring continuously. Sesame seeds will become light golden
brown. This should take 4-5 minutes. Take the seeds out in a bowl. Set
aside.
In the same frying pan heat the water and add the jaggery.
Simmer over medium heat till it starts caramelizing and forms a ball
when you add a drop of syrup in cold water. This should take 4-5
minutes. Reduce the heat to low.
Add ghee, cardamom, and roasted
sesame seeds mix it thoroughly with melted jaggery. Transfer it in
greased plate; take one tablespoon of mixture in your palm and make them
into round ball, this should be half the size of golf balls.
Make all the ladoos while mix is still warm. Sesame seed ladoo can be stored for months.
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 30 mins
Makes 1o laddus