Til Papdi

Instructions

• Heat up a pan on medium heat.
• Add sesame seeds until these turn nice golden.
• Roast the sesame seeds on medium heat only stirring continuously. Do not roast on high heat.
• Take the sesame seeds out into a dish.
• Lower the heat to lowest possible temperature.
• Add sugar in the pan. Spread the sugar evenly into the pan.
• Cook the sugar untouched or undisturbed for at least 3-4 minutes.
• When sugar begins to melt and gets nice golden color stir it so that the sugar will evenly melt.
• After about 2 minutes of cooking, all sugar will be dissolved.
• Add cardamom powder and nut meg powder.
• Mix well quickly and turn off the gas.
• Add roasted sesame seeds and mix quickly. Mix everything well together quickly.
• Take 2 spoons of equal size.
• Take some mixture and try to give it round shape by transferring it from one spoon to other.
• Grease wax paper and rolling pin with ghee really good.
• You can use any dish greased well with ghee instead of wax paper.
• Take the mixture in hand and roll it into small round.
• Put the ball on wax paper and roll it into a disc as thin as possible.
• You have to be very quick during this all process.
• Once the mixture cools down it will be very difficult to roll it into disc.
• You can keep the mixture on lowest possible heat until the process in going on so that it won’t dry out.
• You can grease the wax paper and rolling pin well with ghee at the intervals.
• Til papdi is already.