Til ke Ladoo (Sesame Flaxseed Balls)

Til ke Ladoo are made using roasted sesame seeds, flaxseeds, fig, mixed with melted jaggery and a little flour. They are common in winter and festival months in India, especially for Lohri and Makar Sankranti.

Alsi Til Ladoo or Ellu Unde is a winter recipe of sweet balls made using a blend of sesame and flax seeds with jaggery syrup and without ghee or any refined sugar. Its an ideal way to keep one warm when temperature dips.

A traditional recipe of many which has traveled across generations and I believe it's loved by all. The only thing which might have changed is the family size. If we go back by 30 years, we had large family sizes and there were many hands contributing to so many tasks.

Making ladoos used to be a game for kids, and now it's a big thing for one woman handling multiple tasks.

This easy, quick recipe of Til ke Ladoo is for all those who feel its tough and are forced to buy market stuff.

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• Ingredients Overview
• How To Make Til Sesame Ladoo
• Stories from Kitchen
• Til Ladoo Recipe - Sesame Balls

Ingredients Overview

See the recipe card for detailed ratio of the ingredients.

This recipe involves primarily three ingredients:

1. Sesame Seeds
2. Flax seeds
3. Jaggery
4. Wheat flour (optional)

I have also flavoured it with Anjeer (Fig). One can also add Peanuts, dry fruits, cardamom. Wheat flour is for binding if needed.

If you skip the wheat flour, these laddos can be consumed during navratri or ekadashi vrat. These til ladoos are commonly made on Makar Sankranti and are from traditional Andhra cuisine.

How To Make Til Sesame Ladoo

Step 1 Roast Flax seeds, til (sesame seeds)

Gather all the ingredients: seeds, gud, wheat flour, anjeer (chopped in uneven chunks). Heat heavy Kadai and roast flaxseeds on low flame. They will make a crack sound. Till then keep sautéing in between. It takes about 5-10 min max.

Once done, take them out and in same kadai, roast sesame (til) seeds on low flame. Once they become light brown take them out. They take lesser time around 4 min max.

Step 2 Cool off roasted seeds and blend

Roast wheat flour on low flame. Keep it in a separate plate. Mix Roasted seeds in an open plate so that they cool off. Grind them in a jar.

The ground mixture looks coarse and you may control how coarse it shall be.

Step 3 Make Jaggery Syrup

In the meantime, you may heat jaggery in water. Keep mixing jaggery and slowly it will dissolve and become one solution. Switch off at this point.

Step 4 Add everything to a large Bowl/ parath for making ladoos

Take the ground mixture of flax seeds, til and anjeer pieces in parath (open large utensil)

Sieve Jaggery solution as it has impurities. Add wheat flour gradually to bind the ladoos

Note: This is a tough step as it involves adding hot jaggery solution to ground mixture and its recommended to make ladoos right away else they don't take shape later. Request you to be very careful while doing this step.

Grease your palms with ghee and take lemon-sized portion from the mixture and make a ball. Keep doing it while the mixture is hot.

Step 5 Serve it

The delicious Til Gud Ladoos are ready. Place all the ladoos in an air-tight steel container. They have a shelf life of about 10-15 days when made in Dec - Jan months.

Stories from Kitchen

Making Ladoos is nothing new to me. I started with Besan ladoo and its surely an easy thing. My mother-in-law was an expert when it comes to food.

I remember her til ladoo which she used to make on makar sankranti and trust me upon this never had anything so delicious like that ever.

Its her belief in me that I could think of creating a log of our family recipes. This recipe is inspired by her sister (my husband's Mausi) and her quick tips made it really easy to make these ladoos.

In fact, the churma, a blended mixture of seeds, was her idea.

I was telling my daughter that this compilation and hard-work of creating recipes is for her so that with time our precious recipes are not lost.

Sharing them with my users is a pleasure too.

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