For the second day of Greek cuisine, I have a delicious, chewy sesame candy which is quite easy to make. This has just three ingredients and gets ready in 15 minutes. Honey is one ingredient that is added in most of the Greek desserts. From the syrup for cakes to even syrup for cookies include honey. So when I saw that the whole sesame bar was made with honey, I was quite interested. But when I searched for recipes, I came across some with both sugar and honey and I chose that type of candy to try. I was skeptical making the whole recipe with only honey as I am sure my daughter wouldn’t touch it. Honey has strong flavour and if combined with sugar it would mellow a bit.
Usually these are made as rectangular slices, but I made them into squares. The addition of honey gives a nice flavour as well as the chewy texture to the candies. Ellu mittai is our family favourite, but made with just sugar or jaggery, they would be crisp in texture, but these are on the softer side. The honey added adds some stickiness at the bottom. To avoid that, just flip the candies and let them air dry for a while, They will be crisp on the outside and when you take a bite, they would be chewy. I tasted a bit of the candy and it was absolutely yum. If allowed, I would finish the whole batch in one sitting. It was that yum.
Ingredients:
White Sesame Seeds – 1 cup
Light Brown Sugar – 3/4 cup
Honey – 2 tbs
Procedure:
In a pan toast sesame seeds until they start popping up.
Transfer to a plate and allow it to cool.
Oil two parchment papers. Place one on an inverted baking tray and keep it ready.
In the same pan, add honey, sugar and 2 tbs of water.
Allow the syrup to boil and reach one string consistency.
Add the sesame seeds and mix everything together.
Transfer the mixture to the prepared parchment paper, place another one on top and roll it with a roller to uniform thickness.
Allow it to cool completely.
Slice it up into squares, flip and dry the pieces for a while and store in airtight jar.
Pasteli - Greek Sesame Honey Candy Recipe
Ingredients
- White Sesame Seeds - 1 cup
- Light Brown Sugar - 3/4 cup
- Honey - 2 tbs
Instructions
- In a pan toast sesame seeds until they start popping up.
- Transfer to a plate and allow it to cool.
- Oil two parchment papers. Place one on an inverted baking tray and keep it ready.
- In the same pan, add honey, sugar and 2 tbs of water.
- Allow the syrup to boil and reach one string consistency.
- Add the sesame seeds and mix everything together.
- Transfer the mixture to the prepared parchment paper, place another one on top and roll it with a roller to uniform thickness.
- Allow it to cool completely.
- Slice it up into squares, flip and dry the pieces for a while and store in airtight jar.
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I had read somewhere that honey should not be shared. Is that true?
I am not sure what you mean by honey being shared! Can you elaborate.
It’s like ellu mittai with honey! It’s nice to see recipes closer to home in places so far away!
Wow! I am sure the honey in there added a different dimension to our traditional sesame brittle.
These candies remind me of our own humble Til Chikki , with the addition of honey , I am reminded of Sindhi Borinda , sesame balls made with honey !
Strange inspite of different countries so much similarity ! And yes these have to be yum !
Looks so similar to sesame mittai. I am sure using only honey would changed the taste. Happy to know about this new recipe
This greek sesame candy is so close to our humble Til Chikki, only change is addition of honey. Sometime syou find the similarities too close to our Indian cuisines.. Very nice share, the candies look tempting
Wow they look just like our til chikki. Addition of honey might have given it an amazing taste. Good one Gayatri
Sounds so yummy and so much like our own right…fantastic find Gayathri!