Til Laddoo (Sesame seeds laddoo)

Til laddoo as the name suggests is having Til (Sesame seeds) as Main ingredient. Sesame seeds  is a common ingredient in cuisines across the world and has one of the highest oil contents with rich, nutty flavor to it. 
Delicious, crunchy sesame seeds are widely considered healthful foods. They are high in energy and contain many health benefiting nutrients, minerals, antioxidants and vitamins that are essential for wellness. Calcium, iron, manganese, zinc, magnesium, selenium, and copper are especially concentrated in sesame seeds. Many of these minerals have vital role in bone mineralization, red blood cell production, enzyme synthesis, hormone production, as well as regulation of cardiac and skeletal muscle activities

By nature these seeds are warm and generally eaten in winter season to keep body warm.There are so many ways to make laddoo from til. Main sweets made from til is Gajak and Revadi and there are so many variations in Gajak too.

Gajak is a sweet made with either sugar syrup or jaggery syrup. Til laddoo Gajak or Revadi, all these have festive importance for festivals like lohari and makar sankranti, Til laddoo, Gajak or Revadi are made and offered to guests and donated in temples too. 

But laddoo what I made is a variation from regular  Laddoo or Gajak or Revadi. Taste was really really awesome and everbody liked it. I made Til laddoo in two different ways. Name of these laddoo given by me is

1.White chocolate Til Laddoo

White chocolate til laddoo pic1

2. Til Mawa Laddoo

Til mawa laddoo pic 2

As from names of these you would have understood the ingredients used in these. 

Til mawa laddoo pic 3

White chocolate sweet taste with Seasme seeds flavour works wonder. As my three years son is Chocolate lover just like other kids he was not picking any piece of laddoo as he doesn't want to try any new things in food or you can say he is not interested in food at all except Chocolates and ice cream. This is a great struggle with him to feed any new thing to him. Really really a great struggle. Any how I fed him one piece of white chocolate til laddoo to him and he was like surprised that how come Chocolate taste in this and believe me he ate all white chocolate til laddoo in one instance only and started insisting for more laddoo. I gave him Til mawa laddoo as I had made both types of laddoo simultaneously. He liked Til mawa laddoo too but his reaction for white chocolate til laddoo was superb. I gave this name of white chocolate til laddoo just for desi twist.

                     White chocolate til laddoo pic 4

Pic 1 and pic 4 are same laddoo pics. Only difference is that I garnish with dark chocolate sauce over and around laddoo.


Now for til mawa laddoo, I used homemade mawa using milk and milk powder. If you wish to make mawa only from milk then it can also be done. Taste is awesome either ways. Even cooking process of making mawa is same either way. Only milk has to be reduced till thick semi soild state. If you have no time or want to use readymade mawa from market then take readymade mawa from market and make it loosen in a pan on gas flame using sugar powder. You can make laddoo either ways but taste comes great when you use homemade fresh mawa.  This til mawa laddoo was also liked by my husband and son.


Here I am writing recipes of both type of laddoo separately stepwise with pics.

Ingredients

For White Chocolate Til Laddoo

Making 10 to 12 pieces of small laddoo

1. White chocolate chips: 100 gram
2. White Seasme seeds: 150 grams
3. Dark chocolate chips: 10 to 12 pieces (optional)
4. Dark chocolate syrup: 1 tsp for garnish ( optional)

For Til Mawa Laddoo

Making 10 pieces

1. Full cream Milk: 1 glass or 200 ml
2. Milk powder: 2 tsp
3. White Seasme seeds: 200 grams
4. Sugar fine powder: 100 to 150gram (as your taste)
5. Some dry fruits: for topping

Method of Preparation:

1. Take white Sesame seeds in a bowl and wash it 2 - 3 times draining water. It is necessary to wash to make free from impurities. After washing it, take a cotton cloth and spread all Sesame seeds over that and keep under the sunlight to make it dry. This step is important because cotton cloth absorb water and make sure Sesame seeds are dry. There should not be any moisture. Cover the Sesame seeds from net to stop from  birds.
2. When Sesame seeds get totally dry, then take a pan and heat it on high flame. When it is heated and smoke starts coming from pan put all dry Sesame seeds into pan and put flame on medium. Continuously stir it to roast it. When Sesame seeds starts turning slight brown and roasting aroma
3. Comes out then switch off gas and let it be cool.
4. After 5 to 7 minutes, take all roasted Sesame seeds in mixture jar and give just one pulse and make a coarse powder. This should not be fine powder.

For White Chocolate Til Laddoo:

1. For making white chocolate til laddoo, take white chocolate chips. Now melt it. Melting is prime concern in this whole recipe. I used double boiler method to melt. Microwave method can also be used.

• For microwave method, take a microwave safe bowl. Bowl should be dry and should not contain any moisture. Put all white chocolate chips in bowl and microwave it for 10 to 15 seconds. Take it out from microwave and check whether it is melted or not. If you feel to need more melt then again microwave it for 5 to 10 seconds. Don't heat it in microwave more.
• In double boiler method, take water in deep pan water should be 1/2 of  pan and heat it on gas flame on high heat.  

• Meanwhile take a bowl, bowl can be heat proof glass or steel one can be used  also and put white chocolate chips in it. Again be cautious, bowl should not contain any moisture. This is very very important.When water become hot then place Chocolate bowl over it carefully so that upper bowl shouldn't touch to water bowl. 

• Again be cautious, water should not come in touch of Chocolate or Chocolate bowl. Stir Chocolate chips with spoon uniformly to melt it properly. I used this method to melt the chocolate chips.

 2. Now take out melted chocolate bowl from water pan and keep on kitchen slab. 

 3. Immediately put coarse powder of Sesame seeds in melted chocolate and mix well.

4. Divide whole mixture into 10 small pieces and start making round shape of ladoo using both palm.

5. Put all laddoo in a bowl or plate. Topping with dark chocolate chips and garnish with some dark chocolate sauce with the help of spoon. 

6. Now serve it to your kids or family or guests. You can store in freeze for upto one week.

For Til Mawa Laddoo:

1. For Til Mawa Laddoo, First we make home made mawa. 
2. For Mawa, take a heavy bottom pan and put it on gas flame. Pour milk in this pan and continuously stir it. 

3.    When milk volume reduces to half. Then add milk powder in this. Again continuously stir it.

4.   When it starts turning into thick then add sugar powder in it and stir. Stir it for 5 to 7 minutes. When it starts thickening continuously stir it, otherwise it can be burned.

5.   Switch off gas and keep it side to cool for 5 minutes.
6.   Now add coarse powder of Sesame seeds and mix well.

7.  Divide whole mixture into 10 small pieces and make round shape of laddoo using both palms.

8.    Keep it in plate and do topping with dry fruits and Serve it with smile to your family and friends as that is the most important ingredient.
10.  You can store it for upto 3 days in freeze

Notes:

Some little precautions are there which you have to keep in mind. I just point out all these here below.

1. Make a coarse powder of Sesame seeds. No need of making fine powder.
2. In double boiler method, be cautious that there is no contact of  Chocolate and water. Otherwise Chocolate would become hard.
3. Don't fill water pan full. Only take half of pan water. Otherwise water can come into contact of Chocolate.
4. When Chocolate Sesame seeds are hot that time only starts making round shape otherwise if mixture will become cold then Chocolate would harden and you can't make laddoo shape. So don't let Chocolate Sesame seeds mixture completely cool.
5. Topping with dark chocolate chips and Chocolate sauce is purely optional.
6. While making mawa on gas continuously stir it. Take a heavy bottom pan for it.
7. You can use market made or ready made mawa too for making til mawa laddoo. But taste is awesome when you use home made mawa.
8. When you use market made mawa then for that take a heavy bottom pan and put on low flame burner . Add mawa and make it loosen. Add sugar powder and stir it. It will become thick in 5 to 10 mintues. Switch off gas and keep it side for cool but make sure mawa sugar mixture is thickened and semi solid state. After that you repeat process as above mentioned.