Sesame Balls

(Last Updated on March 4, 2025 by Amiee)

Today’s health-preserving recipe is black sesame balls that have been steamed and dried for nine times.

The earliest ancient book mentioning sesame balls was written in the Jin Dynasty of China in the 4th century AD. The author was a Taoist priest. At that time, the average life span of people was only 30 to 40 years old. However, this Taoist priest lived for more than 80 years. He had a lot of research on health preservation.

Later, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, sesame balls appeared in the books of a traditional Chinese medicine doctor. He lived to be 102 years old and was called the King of Medicine. He advocated dietary therapy and health preservation.

Both authors spoke very highly of black sesame as an ingredient. The book says that taking black sesame seeds can nourish the liver and kidneys, moisten the five internal organs, replenish energy, grow muscles, fill the marrow and brain, blacken beard and hair, and prolong life. “

It can be seen from this that black sesame is a good health-preserving food.

Today’s black sesame balls are steamed nine times and dried in the sun nine times. Steaming nine times and drying nine times is a traditional Chinese medicine processing method. Ancient people used this method when using some traditional Chinese medicines, such as Polygonatum, Rehmannia glutinosa, etc. After steaming black sesame seeds nine times, the fat content is reduced and the nutrients are easier to be absorbed by the body. Exposure to the sun nine times absorbs the energy of the sun, which is called Yang Qi in Chinese medicine. Sesame balls that have been steamed nine times and sun-dried nine times have more beneficial energy and nutrients.

From the perspective of nutrition, black sesame seeds are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, vitamin E and various minerals, which can protect cardiovascular health, enhance memory and immunity, resist aging, promote bone health, and relieve bowel movement.

How to make sesame balls

Ingredient

* Black sesame seeds, 500 g

* Honey, 200 ml

Instructions

1. Steam them in a steamer for an hour. During the steaming process, pay attention to the amount of water in the pot being reduced. Add water in time and do not boil them dry.

2. Then place them on a large plate, lay them flat, and dry them in the sun for a day.

3. The next day, put it in a steamer to steam for an hour, then dry it in the sun. This procedure is repeated nine times.(It takes nine days)

4. Then put it in a pot and stir-fry over low heat until you smell the aroma of sesame seeds, then turn off the heat.

5. Then, a food processor grind the black sesame seeds into powder.

6. Prepare 200 ml honey. Heat it over medium-low heat until the color becomes darker, then turn off the heat.

7. Pour the hot honey into the black sesame powder and use your hands to make many sesame balls, each ball is about 20 grams. Or you can make it smaller, 10 grams per ball.

8. You can wrap them in candy wrappers and refrigerate them.

How to eat

*Eat a 20g sesame ball every day.

* If it is small, 10 grams per ball, take two balls daily, one in the morning and one in the evening.

If you eat it for a long time, you will feel your body getting better.

This sesame ball is so fragrant that I treat it as a snack and can’t help but eat too much.