Til Chikki Recipe | Makar Sankranti Special Recipe | Divine Taste With Anushruti

Learn how to make Til Chikki , a delicious sweet made during the festival of Makar Sankranti by Anushruti.

Makar Sankranti is a major harvest festival celebrated in various parts of India and to celebrate this festival we are the making the most loved and most cooked recipe of Til Chikki. It is a popular Indian Sweet enjoyed during winter months especially during festival of Lohri and Makar Sakranti.

You can also use 1/4 cup of cashews or peanuts by replacing 1/4 cup sesame seeds in the recipe.

Ingredients:

cardamom seeds from 4 cardamom pods, powdered
225 gm (1 ½ cups) sesame seeds
220 gm ( ¾ th cup) jaggery*
4 tsp ghee
1 tbsp milk
7″ or 8″ square tin
baking parchment

Method:

-Powder the cardamom seeds in a mortar and pestle or a coffee grinder. Roast the sesame seeds until they change colour, about 4 to 5 minutes and allow to cool. Crumble the jaggery and keep aside.

-In a heavy bottomed pan, put in the ghee and after the ghee melts, add the jaggery and allow it to melt on low heat.

-Once the jaggery melts, stir in the milk (the milk helps to soften the chikki, so if you don’t want a chikki that is hard to bite into, do not forget this step).

-After the jaggery bubbles for a few seconds, you need to put in the roasted sesame seeds, the cardamom powder and mix well until all the sesame seeds are coated with the jaggery.

-Turn off the heat and transfer this mixture onto a tray lined with baking parchment. You need to make the surface even, using any bowl with a flat bottom and pressing it all over the surface of sesame mixture.

-You need to make cut the flattened surface into squares or diamonds immediately. As it cools, the chikki begins to harden and will be difficult to cut into.

-Allow the squares or diamonds to cool down, harden and acquire shape.

-After it is completely cool, you can break away the pieces easily and store it in an air tight container.

Til Chikki is ready to be served!

Host: Anushruti RK
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