Authentic Til Gur Rewari Recipe | Til Gur Rawari Recipe with Jaggery

31 Dec Authentic Til Gur Rewari Recipe | Til Gur Rawari Recipe with Jaggery

Last Updated on December 31, 2025 by blessmyfoodbypayal

Authentic Til Gur Rewari Recipe | Til Gur Rawari recipe with Jaggery with step wise pictorial and video method.

Til Gur Rewari is not just a winter sweet, but it’s a tradition, a culture, a regional identity and above all it’s a reflection of India’s seasonal wisdom.

Made with jaggery and white sesame seeds, Rewari is made during the winter season and it is considered as one of the sweet to gift and eat on the festival of Lohri, the popular one in North India.

It is available and sold across the shops and street vendors on their rehari’s along with Gur Chikki, Rajgira Ladoo, Peanuts and many more sweet items prepared to generate warmth, energy and strength in the body.

Til Gur Rewari is not special just because of its taste but for its simplicity and use of balanced ingredients as well. If you look at the list of ingredients, it’s just jaggery, sesame seeds and desi ghee as prime one with no use of artificial flavors, refined sugar or modern shortcuts. 

With the changing time, new modern techniques are being used to make food but this regional and deep-rooted recipe depends entirely on technique, timing and experience passed down through generations, be it carefully handling the jaggery syrup, testing its consistency, and working swiftly to shape the rewaries before they set.

On the occasion of Lohri, Rewari along with many other things are distributed among relatives, neighbors, and friends. Offering rewaries is a gesture of goodwill, sweetness, and prosperity. 

Although you will find it in every nook and corner of the city during the whole season, but the homemade one always holds an emotional value. Its rustic texture, uneven shapes, fragrant sesame seeds and deep jaggery flavor carry a charm that factory-made versions cannot replicate. Each piece tells a story of tradition, patience, and love.

STEP-WISE PICTORIAL RECIPE OF  AUTHENTIC TIL GUR REWARI RECIPE 

Grease a steel thali with good amount of desi ghee. Keep aside.

Take water and jaggery in a non stick or heavy bottomed pan. Cook on low heat while stirring continuously otherwise jaggery may burn. Soon the jaggery will completely melt and turn into a syrup.

After 10 minutes of cooking, drop bit of jaggery in a small bowl carrying water. Then stretch it. As it was stretching like a rubber, which means jaggery is not properly cooked. Cook for more time. Now after 5 mins, repeat the same process and this time jaggery is not stretching, rather has turned hard like candy. It’s a sign that jaggery is properly cooked.

Add desi ghee and cardamom powder. Mix. Immediately drop this hot jaggery on that greased thali. As the jaggery is extremely hot, over and over (ulat – palat) this thin jaggery syrup with the spatula itself.

Once you feel jaggery is touchable, start stretching and folding it with lightly watery hands. Repeat this process for 6-7 minutes. Stretch – fold- stretch fold and so on. It is very easy to do as long as jaggery is warm. Once jaggery turns cool, it will be hard to stretch. At this stage, stretch the jaggery into a long rope one last time. Cut into small pieces with greased scissors but make sure the plate in which these pieces are falling must be greased otherwise jaggery pieces will stick there. Keep them aside.

Now take white sesame seeds in heavy bottomed pan and start roasting them on low heat. In 5-6 minutes, their colour will slightly change. Switch off the heat. Make sure the base of the pan is completely covered with the sesame seeds. Add those small jaggery pieces into warm sesame seeds. Just toss them so that sesame seeds get coated on jaggery pieces.

Take the pieces out and gently press them to flatten. Once they cool completely, our til gur rawari is ready.

Enjoy.

NOTES 

1. Make sure the thali should be greased so well with desi ghee otherwise jaggery will start sticking. Better if you take some nonstick pan or tawa.
2. While buying, specifically ask the shopkeeper for a jaggery meant to make rawari as desi gur will not work for it.
3. Though this recipe is using 1 cup of white sesame seeds but all the seeds will not be used. So the leftover sesame seeds can be stored for making any other recipe using til.

AUTHENTIC TIL GUR REWARI RECIPE – RECIPE CARD 

Authentic Til Gur Rewari Recipe

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Authentic Til Gur Rewari Recipe made with roasted sesame seeds and jaggery, crunchy traditional winter sweet from North India homes

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Prep Time 30 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Course Dessert, indian sweets

Cuisine Indian

Servings 275 gram

Ingredients

  

1 cup = 250 ml

• 250 gram/1+1/4 cup jaggery
• 125 gram/1 cup white sesame seeds
• 1 tsp desi ghee
• 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
• 2 tbsp water

Instructions

 

• Grease a steel thali with good amount of desi ghee. Keep aside.
• Take water and jaggery in a non stick or heavy bottomed pan.
• Cook on low heat while stirring continuously otherwise jaggery may burn.
• Soon the jaggery will completely melt and turn into a syrup.
• After 10 minutes of cooking, drop bit of jaggery in a small bowl carrying water.
• Then stretch it. As it was stretching like a rubber, which means jaggery is not properly cooked. Cook for more time.
• Now after 5 mins, repeat the same process and this time jaggery is not stretching, rather has turned hard like candy. It's a sign that jaggery is properly cooked.
• Add desi ghee and cardamom powder. Mix.
• Immediately drop this hot jaggery on that greased thali.
• As the jaggery is extremely hot, over and over (ulat - palat) this thin jaggery syrup with the spatula itself.
• Once you feel jaggery is touchable, start stretching and folding it with lightly watery hands.
• Repeat this process for 6-7 minutes. Stretch - fold- stretch fold and so on. It is very easy to do as long as jaggery is warm.
• Once jaggery turns cool, it will be hard to stretch. At this stage, stretch the jaggery into a long rope one last time.
• Cut into small pieces with greased scissors but make sure the plate in which these pieces are falling must be greased otherwise jaggery pieces will stick there. Keep them aside.
• Now take white sesame seeds in heavy bottomed pan and start roasting them on low heat.
• In 5-6 minutes, their colour will slightly change.
• Switch off the heat.
• Make sure the base of the pan is completely covered with the sesame seeds.
• Add those small jaggery pieces into warm sesame seeds.
• Just toss them so that sesame seeds get coated on jaggery pieces.
• Take the pieces out and gently press them to flatten.
• Once they cool completely, our til gur rawari is ready. Enjoy.

Notes

1. Make sure the thali should be greased so well with desi ghee otherwise jaggery will start sticking. Better if you take some nonstick pan or tawa.
2. While buying, specifically ask the shopkeeper for a jaggery meant to make rawari as desi gur will not work for it.
3. Though this recipe is using 1 cup of white sesame seeds but all the seeds will not be used. So the leftover sesame seeds can be stored for making any other recipe using til.

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