HEALTH REQUIRES HEALTHY FOOD
BLACK SESAME WHOLE WHEAT PANCAKES-
Traditional Indian pancakes stuffed with black sesame seeds, jaggery, and cardamom.
INGREDIENTS FOR THE FILLING
1 cup roasted black sesame seeds
1 cup jaggery
4 Cardomom pods(crushed)
FOR COVERING
1 cup wheat flour
1 Tablespoon oil
A pinch of salt
Water as required
METHOD-
Dry roast the sesame seeds for 8 to 10 minutes. powder the seeds by pulsing. Add the jaggery powder into the mixer little by little and make a paste. From into laddus or little balls.
In a bowl or large plate assemble all the ingredients for the dough, make the dough and rest for one hour.
Make small balls of dough as many as the sesame seeds mixture laddus. Flatten each dough ball with your palm and stuff it with the mixture. close the covering while enhancing the sesame seeds mixture inside the dough, gather all the corners together and pinch to seal.
Sprinkle the dough ball with some flour and roll into a circle. On a griddle or Tawa, place the rolled disc and cook until brown spots appear all over.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE SESAME SEEDS
White sesame seeds are nothing but hulled black sesame seeds. Black seeds have more calcium than white seeds.
Black sesame seeds are full of flavour and nutrition. They have antiageing properties, are good for the bones and when eaten in moderation according to the season and the body type, can also play a role in preventing diseases and stabilising blood pressure.
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