Tille Undo/ Til Laddoo ( Sesame Seed Balls)

Laddoos are a really pop Indian dessert/ snack. Anything that is sweetness together with is shaped similar a ball is a "laddoo". Undo is laddoo inwards my mother-tongue, Konkani. As kids nosotros loves undos/ laddoos. These are commonly made for all kinds of celebrations, festivals or whatever other auspicious occasion. There are hundreds of varieties of laddoos/undos. The basic method is pretty much the same: you lot brand a viscid syrup out of jaggery, mix inwards the desired primary component together with brand balls out of it piece the mixture is pipe hot. The expert purpose is that everything is natural together with is a cracking beginning of minute energy. Today I am going to write virtually sesame laddoos which are extremely nutrient dense beingness rich inwards protein, fiber together with makes for a cracking snack!

Servings: makes xv small-scale laddoos

Ingredients:

Jaggery: 1/2 cup
Sesame seeds: 1 cup
Cardamom powder: 1/8 tsp
Water: ii tbsp

Method:

Heat jaggery together with H2O inwards a pot until the jaggery is completely melted together with liquid. Now plough off the heat, permit it settle for five mins. Gently pour the molten jaggery into a thick-bottomed pot, leaving behind whatever sandy residue.

Dry roast the sesame seeds for five mins together with proceed aside.

Heat the molten jaggery on medium flaming until it thickens together with is viscid when attempting to option to pour from a spoon.

Now mix inwards the toasted sesame seeds together with cardamom powder. Mix good .

Grease your palms amongst butter/ghee. Take small-scale spoonful of the hot sesame mixture together with cast it into balls of desired size. If the mixture cools down, you lot volition non last able to cast it into balls.

Store inwards an air-tight container.
Stays fresh at room-temperature for upto a month.

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

The telephone commutation for expert laddoos is the stickiness of the jaggery. Not all jaggery are meant to last sticky. Back home, specific jaggery known every bit viscid jaggery is available inwards the store. Here inwards the US, I bring works life the Kolhapuri jaggery to last viscid plenty for the laddoos.

How does 1 exam if the jaggery has been boiled plenty to last viscid plenty for the laddoo?
We telephone call upwards it the string test. Take a driblet of boiling jaggery together with driblet it inwards a drinking glass of water. If the jaggery maintains its venture terra firma together with remains stringy it is the correct consistency. If it sinks together with dissolves inwards water, together with so you lot involve to boil it approximately to a greater extent than until you lot plough over the stringy consistency.

Tip for salubrious living:

Sesame seed is a wonderful beginning of poly peptide for vegetarians amongst 4.7 gms of poly peptide per ounce.It has a depression glycemic index, so is cracking for diabetics.It is rich inwards magnesium which is a telephone commutation inwards lowering blood pressure. It is likewise rich inwards zinc which is expert for the skin. It has phytosterols that assist lower cholesterol together with has anti-inflammatory properties due to the presence of sesamol inwards it. It likewise helps regulate the GI organization every bit it is high inwards dietary fiber.In a nut-shell, it is a small-scale seed that packs a punch!

References:
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=84
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/20-health-benefits-of-sesame-you-wont-believe.html
http://www.nutrition-and-you.com/sesame-seeds.html

Food for thought:

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