Ellurundai / Sesame Balls

Ellurundai is prepared generally during Krishna Jeyanthi. It is actually a healthy snack and prepared in minutes.

It is very useful in building strong bones and healthy hair.

Servings: 15 Sesame balls (small)
Preparation time: 20 mins

Ingredients:
Sesame seeds: 100 gm
Jaggery syrup: 3/4 cup

Heat a flat surface pan in medium flame. When the pan is heated, dry roast the sesame seeds. When the seeds pops up in the pan, remove from flame.Do not overcook the sesame. It gives a bitter taste then.

Once the sesame seeds are cooled, mix it in a blender for just 5 seconds. It need not to be so much fine powder.

 Take a small piece of jaggery, it can be of the size of a small gooseberry. Add very little quantity of water. You can just sprinkle the water in a low flame. The syrup's consistency should not be very watery. Remove from flame when it is mildly thick.

Pour the syrup in the blended sesame seeds.Once the jaggery syrup has cooled down to warm temperature, mix it well with sesame and shape to balls.

Note: You can even add roasted groundnuts and roasted bengal gram (Pottu Kadalai) to the sesame blend.