SESAME CHIKKI / TIL GAJAK / Gud til gajak

Name: SESAME CHIKKI / TIL GAJAK / Gud til gajak
Total time: 900 s
Yield: 24 pieces
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup sesame/ til, white; 1 tsp ghee; 1 cup jaggery/ gud

Jyoti Prakash Assudani @cook_24726422

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Til chikki/ sesame chikki/ til ki chikki/til gajak/ til ki Lai Sindhi name
A flavorful dessert recipe mainly prepared with sesame seeds and melted jaggery which basically helps to shape it. it is typically prepared during the celebration of makara sankrathi festival and is exchanged between friends and family. the recipe is commonly refereed as til chikki but also known as tilgul, til gur patti, gajak ..

Jyoti Prakash Assudani @cook_24726422

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Ingredients

15 mins

24 pieces

1 cupsesame/ til, white
1 tspghee
1 cupjaggery/ gud

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Steps

15 mins

1

Firstly in a pan dry roast 1 cup sesame on low flame till it splutters.
now in another kadai heat 1 tsp ghee and add 1 cup jaggery.
keep stirring on medium flame till the jaggery melts completely. alternatively, use sugar, if you do not prefer jaggery.
2

Boil the jaggery syrup on low flame till the syrup turns glossy and thickens.
3

Check the consistency, by dropping syrup into a bowl of water, it should form hard ball and cut with a snap sound. else boil for another minute and check...
4

Simmer the flame add roasted sesame seeds. Stir well making sure jaggery syrup coats well. Immediately paper or into steel plate greased with ghee. Be quick else the mixture turns hard and well be difficult to set.
5

Get together forming a block, be careful as the mixture will be very hot.
now using a rolling pin roll the slightly thick block. (I've used greased plate)
6

Lastly, serve til chikki once cooled completely, or store in a airtight container and serve for a month...
7

Allow to cool for a minute, and when its still warm cut into pieces....