The Harvest festival of Sankranti (and also the advent of the sun's trip to the northern hemisphere) is celebrated in different ways all over the Indian Sub continent. In the western state of Maharashtra, one of the primary offerings is little nuggets of sesame brittle, that are exchanged between neighbors with the gentle verse 'Til gul ghya aani goad goad bola' - Please take this piece of sesame brittle and may you always have only sweet things to say , <br />Having said that, sesame brittle seems to be quite temperamental whenever I try to make it, the jaggery (unrefined sugar with molasses) either does not heat up enough or worse, goes past the hard crack stage into burnt caramel, and both these are not optimal. I settled on making my own version and came up with an alternate technique, with ingredients familiar to the general food loving population. and yes, everything about this screams sesame!

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