Sesame Ball / Ellu Urundai

It’s another easy and tasty urundai. Instead of sugar, I have used jaggery to prepare this sweet. Sesame seeds have many medical beneficial. It has rich source of calcium. 

 Black sesame seeds also have high amount of protein, iron,copper and magnesium. That’s why it’s advisable to give ladies, especially during menstruation times.

Ingredients

Raw Rice – ½ cup

Sesame Seeds – 1 cup

Roasted Gram/Pottukadalai – ½ cup

Jaggery – 2 cup

Salt a pinch

Cardamom/Elachi Powder – ½ tsp

Ghee – 3 tsp

Fried Cashews – 3 tsp

Method

Soak raw rice for at least 1 to 2 hours then remove the excess water and keep it in a cotton cloth. Let it be dry for some times.

Heat kadai, add roasted gram and saute it for few minutes till the nice aroma comes out.

Then take it out and let it cool for 5 to 10 minutes then make it as fine powder and keep it aside.

In the same kadai, add sesame seeds and dry roast it till the color changes slightly on a low flame.

Once it done, let it cool and take 5 tsp of sesame seeds, keep it in separate bowl. The remaining seeds should be grind as coarse powder.

Then take the rice and dry roast for few minutes. Once it done, grind it as fine powder.

By mean time, in a vessel add little water with jaggery and heat it till this gets thicken and the color changes.

Once you get the good consistency then switch off the flame.

In a bowl add roasted gram powder, rice flour, sesame powder with little salt, and elachi powder and give a nice mix.

Then add this into jaggery syrup and mix it well. Now add sesame seeds (Kept it in a bowl) and fried cashew nuts.

Then grease your hands with ghee and make balls out of it when still hot.

Store it in an air tight container for long day purpose. And enjoy this tasty sesame balls!!!