Tambittu Recipe

Tambittu – A Traditional South Indian Offering! 🌺

In many South Indian homes, especially across Karnataka, certain sweets are more than just festive treats — they’re a part of our heritage. Tambittu, a simple yet sacred and delicious sweet, that’s often prepared during important poojas and festivals like Varamahalakshmi Vrata, Gowri-Ganesha, and Nag Panchami.

Made using roasted gram, jaggery, ghee, and coconut, Tambittu is traditionally offered as naivedya to the deities.  It's usually prepared fresh on the day of the pooja. The diyas are lit and aarti is done to the deities.

This sweet carries the warmth of our homes and the spirit of our festivals

Let's learn how to make this ..

Tambittu Recipe

Ingredients:

• rice flour –  1/2 cup
• Fried Gram pwd/ HuriKadle-1/2 cup
• Jaggery – 1/2 cup
• Ghee -2 tbsp
• Elachi pwd-1/2 tsp
• Water as needed
• dry coconut-l small cup
• Roasted nuts crushed-few

Method- Roast the fried gram and blend it to coarse powder in the mixer. Next in a pan roast the rice flour well, next add the Hurikadle/ fried gram powder and roast for 2-3 mins. In another pan, heat jaggery with little water. Add the roasted flour to it and mix well. Add ghee and a bit of water and mix well. Add cardamom pwd, nuts and mix. Once cool, make it into small cup shape.

Fill the cups with ghee and put the cotton wick. Light this thambittu deepa for the pooja. 

Make laddus of the remaining and enjoy.

"Festive Flavors, the Traditional Way."

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