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Golden Sesame Balls. Turmeric Toasted Sesame balls with Cinnamon and Cardamom. 5 Ingredient Sesame snack balls, or make them into bars or protein sesame bars. Vegan Gluten-free Nut-free Recipe. Pin it for later
These super simple balls are a great snack and a great way to add more daily turmeric. They are super easy to carry along and store. The sesame balls use just 5 ingredients. Toasty Sesame seeds, maple syrup, tahini, turmeric + spices/flavors, coconut flour.
Make these with just sesame seeds or sesame and other seeds. Sesame seeds are an acquired flavor, so mix other seeds or nuts. Pulse the larger seeds/nuts to a coarse meal before using. Toast them to preference, then mix in the tahini maple mixture. You can also use popped grains (quinoa, amaranth, millet etc) instead of sesame seeds. You can sub the tahini with smooth nut butter. These balls also remind me of Til ke ladoo which are usually made of sesame seeds and jaggery syrup. Use these as a laddoo sub at the next Indian festival. Loads of options!
Add flavors of choice to these snack balls. I use freshly crushed cardamom and ground cinnamon. Freshly crushed cardamom seeds and amazing and add a vibrant flavor to these balls. Use unflavored protein powder instead of coconut flour for a protein filled ball. Make some and let me know how you like them!
More Turmeric Recipes from the blog
- Fresh Turmeric Root and ginger Tea.
- Turmeric Peanut butter Chickpea Curry
- Turmeric Iced Masala Tea
- Turmeric Lentil spinach Dal with Panch phoron spices
- Turmeric Steel Cut Oats
- Turmeric Lemon rice
- Most of the Indian Recipes
Golden Sesame Balls
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp tahini
- 2.5 tbsp or more maple syrup
- 1/2 cup white sesame seeds, or a combination of different seeds like sesame, coarsely ground pumpkin seeds etc
- 1/2 to 1 tsp turmeric
- 1/4 to 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp or more freshly crushed cardamom seeds , or cardamom powder
- 1 tbsp coconut flour , or vegan protein powder of choice
Instructions
- In a bowl mix tahini and maple syrup until well combined. (Heat the tahini in the microwave so that it mixes easily or let the mixture sit on the counter to come to room temperature.
- Toast the sesame seeds in a skillet over medium heat for 6 to 8 minutes or until golden. Stir occasionally. Take off heat. Mix the in the turmeric into the sesame seeds while still warm-hot.
- Add the sesame seeds to the tahini maple bowl. Add the spices and mix well. Add coconut flour or protein powder and mix in. Chill the mixture for 5 to 10 minutes, then shape into balls or press in a parchment lined pan to cut into bars. Store on the counter for the day or refrigerate for upto a week.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Ingredients are expensive.
Ha it’s true! All the more reason to use them wisely with delicious homemade cooking. 🙂
These look simply delicious!! But…are they really 389 calories per ball??? I can’t eat them if they are that fattening…I know me – one ball is never enough!
oh, the serving size is incorrect. its calculating for 5 balls per serving. i’ll update it for 1 ball. its more like 75-80 cals per ball
Cardamom is such an expensive spice here in Canada, but I bet it really adds an wonderful flavour to these sesame balls. Would these be as good if cardamom were left out, what could I use to replace it, perhaps nutmeg?
yes use nutmeg. Also cardamom is much cheaper in indian stores.
Thank you, I live out in the Country, the nearest Indian store to me is about an hour away, but next time I’m in the city I will definitely look for it.
Wow, delicious! Made these this morning and they were all gone by this evening 😋 both my husband and I loved them so much. They were intended for a work morning tea in two days time, so will obviously need to make more! I used half black sesame seeds, half white, and when balls were rolled I found them a bit sticky so coated them in desiccated coconut, which addded to the deliciousness of them 🤤 thank you very much
awesome!
I made these these today as a treat for my son on his birthday, Richa, but it turned out that they were a treat for the rest of the fam too. Delicious and easy peasy to make. Thank you for the recipe! I recently received your new book and just love it. I can’t wait to try so many of the recipes––it’ll be hard to choose where to start!
I didn’t have tahini so I ground up toasted sesame seeds and added oil to it. The final mix was not as most as tahini so I added extra oil for stickiness.