Sweet Pidi Kozhukattai Recipe / Sweet Kozhukattai Recipe


A really simple kozhukattai recipe to make for vinayagar chaturti or for kids after school snacks..It is tasty as well as healthy too..I had this on drafts so decided to share this right after my uppu kozhukattai.

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I hope you will like this and let me know if you try it..


Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 25 to 30 mins
Makes : 20 kozhukattai

Ingredients:

Homemade Rice Flour - 1 cup ( You can use Store Bought too)
Jaggery / Gur - 3/4 cup
Water - 2 cup
Fresh Coconut - 1 cup grated
Cardamom Powder - 2 tsp

Method:

Take jaggery and 1 cup of water in a pan. Heat it so the jaggery is melted. Now strain this and add it to the same pan.

Add in more water and mix well.

Add in ghee, cardamom powder and coconut. Bring it to a boil.

Once it boils, simmer and add in rice flour slowly and mix well so no lumps are formed. 

Now keep this cooking till it leaves the sides and comes together.

Remove this mix to a bowl and let it cool so you can handle.

Once it is cool knead once so it is smooth.

Grease your hands slightly with some oil and take small portion from it and press slightly.

Now repeat the same with the remaining dough.

Place it in a steamer and steam it for 8 to 10 mins.

Remove it and allow it to cool slightly before serving.

Pictorial:
Take all your ingredients..You just need a handful of stuffs

Add jaggery to a pan
Pour in water

Heat so the jaggery is melted

strain it

This is the strained jaggery liquid

pour it back into the same pan, i like to give a
quick rinse to the pan with some water
 
add some more water

now you got to bring this to a boil

once it reaches a good boil

add a good amount of cardamom powder..Main flavouring

i like to add coconut right into the jaggery water

add some ghee, for extra aroma

now slowly add in the rice flour

keep mixing so no lumps are formed

It will start to leave the sides of the pan very quickly

once it is clumped together like this

remove it to a bowl and let it cool down

now knead it slightly

take a small portion

press to make your finger impression in the kozhukattai

repeat the same for the remaining dough

Place it in a steamer plate..i used my idli plates

Stack it up

cover and steam

all cooked

Enjoy


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I know, I know..This post has to be posted before ganesh chaturthi but sorry, i made this on ganesh chaturthi, so i didn't get time to share it before that. This post has been sitting in my draft for so long, so i decided to share it before i forget the measurements. And it doesn't mean that kozhukattai's has to be made and consumed only on ganesh chaturthi..

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This is so easy to make, and it can be made either for breakfast or after school snack for kids..I hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out..


Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 25 to 30 mins
Makes : 20 to 25 Kozhukattai

Ingredients:

Homemade Rice Flour - 1 cup (You can use store bought too)
Water - 2 cup
Fresh Coconut - 1/2 cup grated
Salt to taste

For Seasoning:
Oil - 2 tsp
Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
Split Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu - 1 tblspn
Dry Red Chilli - 3 cut into small pieces
Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi - 1/4 tsp
Curry Leaves - a sprig

Method:

Heat oil in a pan, add in all the seasoning ingredients and saute for a min.

Add in water, salt and coconut. Bring it to a boil.

Once it boils, simmer and add in rice flour slowly and mix well so no lumps are formed. 

Now keep this cooking till it leaves the sides and comes together.

Remove this mix to a bowl and let it cool so you can handle.

Once it is cool knead once so it is smooth.

Grease your hands slightly with some oil and take small portion from it and press slightly.

Now repeat the same with the remaining dough.

Place it in a steamer and steam it for 8 to 10 mins.

Remove it and allow it to cool slightly before serving.

Pictorial:
Take all your ingredients

Heat some oil in a pan

add in all the seasoning ingredients

add a good amount of curry leaves

saute for a min

Once it is golden, pour in water

now season the water really well..Because once you add
the rice flour, then the seasoning cannot be
added, because it wont evenly spread..

add a good amount of grated fresh coconut

once it reaches a boil

add in rice flour slowly and keep mixing

now it is all mixed without lumps

keep mixing till it comes together

remove it to a bowl, allow it to cool down

once it is easy to handle..Knead it so it forms a soft dough

take a small portion

press it like this,

so your finger impression in the kozhukattai

do this for the remaining dough

place this whole thing in a steamer

cover and steam

now the kozhukattai is cooked

remove and serve..

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