Tilkut

Description

To those of you who enjoy a sugar rush a dive into Bihari cuisine will be worth it. This north Indian state has a plethora of desserts and savouries which will be a delight to your sweetened taste buds. A feeling which you are too sure to relinquish for days to come. However, it requires skill and talent to create the choicest of Bihari sweets. One such sweet that requires careful preparation is the Tilkut a healthy dessert prepared from punched sesame seeds. It is cooked with a sugar base rolled into a ball filled with copious amounts of crushed sesame seeds. The tilkut gets tastier, softer and nebulous with a luxurious input of sesame seeds. Heated in an optimum temperature with the right proportions of jaggery and lint is then hammered where the hard work begins to beat them into biscuit like shapes. The best tilkuts are made in the town of Gaya. However, take care Tilkut is a seasonal dish and it is available only in winters (during Makar Sankranti time). The saying Winter is coming can be never be looked forward more optimistically except in the matter of Tilkuts.