Simsim Balls Recipe| Sesame Seeds Snack Balls| Tsinuni
Make this delicious sesame seeds snack with just 2 ingredients using these easy-to-follow instructions. Accompanying this recipe is a video tutorial of how to make simsim balls at home. You can find it at the end of this recipe.
Equipment
- 1 wide pan
- 1 small saucepan
- 1 Wooden Spoon
- 2 tbsps
- 1 tsp
Ingredients
- 1&¼ cups sesame seeds
- ⅓ cup sugar
Instructions
- Begin by preheating the pan on your stove for a few minutes until just hot enough; not too hot.Use one of the smaller burners on your stove. We need heat that's just hot enough not to burn our sesame as it cooks.Sesame seeds are really tiny as you know and they can easily burn if you use intense heat.
- Add the sesame seeds onto the pan.Stir them constantly the first 2 minutes with a wooden spoon.
- After the first 2 minutes, reduce the flame to the lowest option as your stove has been designed.Stir the sesame seeds frequently from now on for the next 10 to 12 minutes on that low flame. The reason one has to stir frequently is because sesame seeds are tiny. Some of the seeds can easily burn if left unturned for too long. You need to keep stirring to ensure even cooking.
- Once they are ready, switch off the flame and keep stiring them for another minute or two now that the pan is still hot then set aside.
- Add sugar into a suitable saucepan and place on a lighted stove stove. Once again, use one of the small burners on your stove.
- Cook the sugar, stirring whenever necessary until all of it is melted. Do not let it boil. Boiling results in simsim balls that have a slightly bitter taste.
- Reduce the flame to the lowest, then add the sesame seeds to this melted sugar syrup and stir until the sesame seeds are well covered with and incorporated in the melted sugar
- Now reduce the flame to the lowest by turning the nob slowly as though you are switching off. The flame needs to be so low in order to help keep the sugar melted without burning.
- Begin to form the balls by scooping a tablespoon of the mixture. Transfer it onto a suitable sideplate that can withstand the heat from the melted sugar.Shape it with a teaspoon into a ball as you give it a few seconds to cool slightly. Melted sugar is very hot. It can burn you as you work with the sesame seed mixture now that we will use our hands for the final shaping. You also wouldn't want the mixture to cool and harden before you shape it into simsim balls.
- Transfer the ball into your hands and shape it further, pressing it between your palms into a round shape to make it compact. Once it's compact, transfer onto a suitable platter or tray for the simsim balls to cool down further.As they cool, they'll harden to form the characteristic simsim balls.
- Repeat this same procedure with the remaining mixture until you have all your simsim balls ready. Remember to switch off the flame once you are done.
- Serve when they're warm or when they've completely cooled.Enhance your hospitality for the glory of God.