TIL CHIKKI

Til chikki is an Indian traditional sweet candy consumed during winters. It is made with two ingredients, jaggery and white sesame seeds or til.

Here the jaggery needs to be cooked till hard ball stage so that the resulting chikki is crisp instead of chewy and soft.It is mostly consumed on Makar Sankranti.

.                  Til chikki

RECIPE

INGREDIENTS

1 cup white til or sesame seeds

1 cup jaggery

1 tbsp ghee

1 tsp water

Preparation

1.Roast the sesame seeds in a pan or kadhai for five minutes. keep aside.

2. Grease a plate with ghee and keep aside.

3.Grease the rolling pin as well and keep aside.

8.Heat the same pan or kadhai, keep the flame low. Add ghee.

9.After ghee melts, add jaggery and water and start stirring till jaggery melts.

10.Cook the jaggery syrup stirring frequently.

11.To check the consistency of the syrup,keep a bowl of cold water.

12. Drop a little jaggery syrup into this water.

13.It must form a ball and should be hard. Break it to check.

14. Add the roasted sesame seeds or til and mix well.

15.Turn off the flame.

16.Transfer the Chikki to the greased plate and spread it with a spatula.

17. Roll the chikki evenly using the rolling pin.

18. Cut them into square shapes when hot.

19.Cool it completely and then break the chikki into pieces.