Here is a wonderful recipe from my grandma's file.Its wonderful.

Thambuttu
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Ingredients:
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1. Thambuttu powder – 1 cup
(Method : Roast 1 seer or about 4 cups of par-boiled rice. Powder with seeds of 12 cardamom pods and 1 teaspoon of fenugreek seeds)

2. Ripe bananas (ripe yellow plantians)- 10
3. Salt – to taste
4. Sugar – 1 teaspoon (If the bananas are not sweet, more sugar may be added)
5. Cardamom powder from – 1 pod
6. Coconut (grated) – ½ cup
7. Gingelly (sesame) seeds (roasted) – 1 tablespoon

Method:
Place the bananas, salt and thambuttu powder on a large plate. Squeeze and knead well until it gets a soft consistency. Mix grated coconut, roasted gingelly, sugar and a pinch of cardamom separately. Serve this on top of the Thambuttu. The coconut mixture can also be mixed with the Thambuttu mixture. Serve with hot ghee.

Goes well as a tea time snack or desert.
Source(s):
grandma's file.

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