Ellurundai / ellu urundai / Til ke Laddoo

Sesame seed sweet ball (Winter laddu). It is a suitable dessert that warms up our body during winter season. Narimedu (Madurai special)

Ingredients:

• White Sesame seeds : 1 cup
• Jaggery (gud) : 1 cup
• Grated dry coconut : 1/2 cup (Optional)
• Peanuts (groundnuts) : 1/2 cup
• Cardamom Powder : 1 tsp
• Ghee : 1 tbsp

Procedure:

• Roast the sesame seeds till golden brown.
• Roast the grated coconut.
• Roast the groundnuts and coarsely powder them.
• Melt jaggery in a heavy bottomed pan, add 1 tbsp of ghee and stir.
• On boiling, add all other ingredients and stir.
• Remove from flame.
• Grease your hands with a little ghee and make laddoos when the mixture is of bearable warmth. You can heat again a little, if mixture becomes cold.
• Laddus can be stored for 10 to15 days in an air-tight container.

IDLI PODI (POWDER TO TAKE WITH IDLY)

• Roast and grind 100 gm each of Black gram (ulundam paruppu,urad dal), Bengal gram (kadalai paruppu,channa dal), 50 gm each of red chilli, white sesame and a few curry leaves, separately.
• Mix all with a little asafoetida (perungayam,hing) and required amount of salt.
• Store in air tight container.