Sesame Snaps or Tilgul Vadi

I took this easy recipe from Madhurasrecipe.com . I didn't have jaggery at home so I used brown sugar. It turned out just the same except that it took longer to melt the sugar in the microwave. I'm not sure if it the sugar or it just the power setting on my microwave oven. Nevertheless, the tilgul vadis turned out pretty awesome. Thanks to Madhura for his easy recipe.

Ingredients

1 cup of dark brown jaggery or brown sugar

1 teaspoon of ghee

1 teaspoon of hot water

3/4 cup of roasted sesame seeds

1/4 roasted crushed peanuts

1/2 teaspoon of cardamom powder

a pinch of nutmeg powder

Directions

1.  In a heat proof bowl, add ghee and sugar and mix well.

2.  Microwave the sugar and ghee for 2 minutes or until the sugar melts and starts to have 
     bubbles. Mix the sugar at 1 minute intervals . You need to be careful because the sugar 
     gets really hot and so does the bowl.

3.  Once the sugar starts to boil, remove from the microwave oven and add in the cardamom 
      powder, nutmeg powder and hot water and mix well. The sugar syrup tends to splat a 
      little so be careful.

4.  Quickly add in the roasted sesame seeds and roasted peanuts and mix well. If the sugar 
      syrup hardens, just add another teaspoon of water and mix until all the sesame and nuts 
      are coated with the hot syrup.

5.  Pour it into a greased wax paper. Put another greased wax paper on top of the tilgul vadi 
     and roll it a rolling pin to flatten the tilgul vadis evenly.

6.  When the tilgul vadis a little cool, cut them into squares and store them in an airtight 
     container.