Tambittu

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 di...