Name: Tilachi Vadi or Sesame Snaps recipe by Sanika Khadilkar at BetterButter
Prep time: 6 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 16 min
Yield: 3
Ingredients: ¼ cup sesame seeds; ¼ cup grated jaggery; 1½ tablespoon ghee/butter; 1 teaspoon water; 1 teaspoon cardamom powder; 1 teaspoon dry ginger powder

Instructions

Add sesame seeds in a pan and dry roaste until the raw smell goes away. Fry on a low flame or else seeds may get burn. Keep it aside and let it cool.
Grease the platform or the plate with a little ghee, where you are going to pour the vadi mixture. Also, grease the rolling pin with the ghee too.
Heat a tablespoon ghee/butter in a pan. Add grated jaggery and a teaspoon of water. Keep it on low flame. Stir the jaggery continiously. Let it melt completely. It will start bubbling in a couple of minutes.
When the jaggery stops bubbling, add sesame seeds, ½ teaspoon cardamom and ginger powder into the jaggery mixture. Switch off the flame.
Mix it and immediately pour it on a greased plate. Start rolling with the rolling pin.
Cut into squres with the knife while the mixture is hot. Sprinkle remaining cardamom powder and ginger powder. Let it cool down completely.
Store it in a container.

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