Tambittu

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Tambittu – Shivaratri special

Ingredients:

Rice flour – 1 cup
Roasted peanuts – 1 cup
Fried bengal gram – 1 cup
Sesame seeds – 1 cup, stir fried until they puff up
Organic jaggery – 2.5 cups
Sugar – 0.5 cup
Green Cardamom – 6

Instructions:

       Add sugar and cardamom into a blender and make fine powder. Add this into a bowl along with fried bengal gram, roasted peanuts, rice flour, sesame seeds and mix well.

       In a thick bottomed vessel, add organic jaggery along with sprinkle of water. Allow this mixture to be heated. Keep stirring. This mixture starts to melt and turns into soft texture. When it starts to form bubbles and is thickening, pick up the spatula and drop few jaggery droplets into a small bowl of water. Try to bind them together. They should stick to each other and form a bigger lump. This is the right consistency of the jaggery mixture to make laddoos. If the jaggery dissolves in the water, then, allow it to heat further stirring occassionally. When the molten jaggery is in the right consistency as discussed above, pour it over the mixture of rice flour and other ingredients. Mix well and bind them together to make a soft round ball.


       Grease your palm with oil or ghee. Take small portions of the laddoo mixture. Gently press the dough between your palms or by using your fingers make a small round ball. Place this laddoo in a clean and dry plate. Follow the same process to make the laddoos until all the dough is used up. Allow them to cool down under room temperature before serving. You may serve them as an offering to God or as snacks to family and friends. Quick, easy and healthy snack is ready! These laddoos can also be stored in an air tight container and consumed within 2 weeks.

      This laddoo is widely made during Shivaratri festival and sometimes during any other festivities. In Karnataka, it is famously known as Tambittu and is shared among neighbours as festival goodies. There are variety of ways to make it. The one i have shared today is the easiest and most authentic one prepared by many of them even today.

      Keeping up with the tradition and serving our family with the most traditional delicacies not just cheers me up but it also helps me introduce the rich Indian culture and traiditions to my kids. This way i am able to do my bit in imbibing our age old traditions and customs into these young minds before they are forgotten for ever in this fast changing lifestyle.

      Please do try this simple and healthy recipe. Keep me posted with your experiences and comments. See you again in our next video.

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