Til Takti Recipe – Traditional Bengali Sesame Chikki with Jaggery

Til Takti Recipe – Traditional Bengali Sesame Chikki with Jaggery

By Barnali Dutta | Published: October 20, 2014

Prep time: 5 min | Cook time: 20 min | Total time: 25 min | Yield: 3 portions

Serving size: 4–5 pieces | Calories per serving: 125

Til Takti – traditional sesame jaggery sweet of Bengal.

If you want to cook like an expert you need not make a recipe unnecessarily complicated. In Bengali there is a proverb “তিল কে তাল করা” (til ke taal kora) meaning to exaggerate something small into something big.

This traditional sweet shows how sesame (til) can transform into a beautiful dish or “thal”. It is a sesame seed candy similar to the Greek sweet Pasteli and is one of the most common traditional Bengali confections.

Ingredients

• White sesame seeds – 3/4 cup
• Sugarcane jaggery – 1 cup
• Ghee (clarified butter) – 3 tsp

Directions

1. Boil semi-liquid jaggery on moderate heat until it thickens. Stir continuously with a ladle so air gets incorporated and the mixture becomes frothy.
2. Pour the hot jaggery mixture onto a greased plate and immediately sprinkle roasted sesame seeds over it. Allow it to cool slightly until it forms a solid disc known as Til Takti or sesame saucer.