Sesame Brittle Recipe

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Ingredients:

·         1 cup raw sesame seeds

·         ¾ cup sugar

·         Pinch of salt

·         ¼ tsp ground nutmeg

·         1 tbsp water

·         1 tbsp chopped almond

·         ¼ tsp baking soda

·         2 tsp butter

·         ¼ cup honey

Preparation:

            Take a heavy bottom skillet and put the sugar, honey, nutmeg, water, and salt in it. Cook on medium heat stirring continuously until smooth slurry is formed. Add the sesame seeds and almonds in it. Cook it for about ten minutes or until the mixture turns an amber caramel colour. Then remove the skillet from heat and add butter to it. When mixed well, add baking soda and stir the mixture well. Now pour the mixture onto a flat baking sheet and spread smoothly over the sheet. Once completely cooled and hardened, cut it in different beautiful shapes like heart, squares, etc. You may also make balls of it when it slightly cools down.

Basan kay Laddoo

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Ingredients:

·         3 cups gram flour (bason)

·         7-8 tbsp semolina flour (suji)

·         1 cup unsalted butter of ghee

·         1 ½ cup ground sugar

·         1 ½ tbsp sliced almonds

·         1 tsp ground cardamom powder

·         1 tbsp sliced pistachio nuts for garnishing

Preparation:

            Put gram flour, semolina flour and butter (or ghee) in a pan and mix well. When all the ingredients are mixed then put it on medium heat and cook for 8-10 minutes. Don’t cook it on high heat. Then remove it from heat and let it relax at room temperature for about 10 minutes. When the bason is slightly warm it will leave ghee. Now add the ground sugar, almonds and cardamom powder. Mix well and then make laddu of your desired size. The laddu are ready, to garnish them slightly dip one side of the laddu in the melted butter or ghee and then dip this side in the sliced pistachio nuts. Enjoy!