Healthy Food Recipes - Peanut Poorna Kozhukattai (Verkadalai Kozhukattai)
Posted on: 25/Feb/2015 11:38:35 AM
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Ingredients:
For Outer Dough:
For Outer Dough:
- Raw rice flour – 1 cup
- Salt- as required
- Oil – 2 tbsp.
- Water – 1 cup
For Peanut Stuff:
- Peanut (Verkadalai) – ½ cup
- Jaggery (grated) – ½ cup
Method of preparation of Peanut Stuff:
- Heat a heavy bottomed pan on a medium heat, slowly roast the peanuts. Cool and rub the skins off.
- Grind the roasted peanuts into a little coarse powder and set aside.
- Add the grated jaggery along with the grinded peanut powder in the mixer and grind it to a coarse powder.
Method of preparation of outer dough:
- Boil the required quantity of water along with a required salt and a spoon of oil in it.
- Take a cup of rice flour in a mixing bowl. Add boiling water little by little to the flour, mix very well using a ladle and make a soft dough.
- Allow it cool for some time and then knead it well. The dough should be soft and smooth.
- Add a spoon of oil on top of the flour, so that the dough will not get dried off.
- Grease your hands and a plastic paper with oil. Take a ball of the rice flour dough and place it in the middle of the plastic paper and press it as thin as possible using a heavy bottomed vessel.
- Place the mixed peanut and Jaggery powder in the middle of the disc shaped flour and close it.
- Pinch the edges of the dough and seal it.
- Hold the dough at the edges and press it with the finger to get the neat finishing touch for the dish.
- Follow the same for the rest of the dough.
- When you are preparing a lot quantity of Kozhukattai, place first few Kozhukattai in first row and close the lid for 2 mintes. And then place another row, so that it never gets stick on to each other.
- Place them in a greased idly plates and steam them for 10 minutes.
- You can very well use the rice flour packet available in the market, or you can prepare it of own in your house, store it and use whenever needed.
- Serve either hot or warm and enjoy the delicicious Peanut Poorna Kozhukattai!
Tips for homemade Rice Flour:
- Wash and soak required quantity of rice in water for about 2 hours.
- Drain water completely and spread it on a cotton cloth for about 15 to 30 minutes.
- Then grind this wet rice in a mixer without the addition of water. Sometimes you might not get a nice powder while grinding in a mixer. In that case, you can grind the rice in flour mill and get it done. And in this case, no need for sieving the rice.
- Now sieve the grinded wet rice.
- Heat the pan and just d dry roast the grinded wet rice flour. Keep the stove in low flame. The texture should be similar to sandy texture and never roast it deeper.
- Or instead of dry roast it, keep the flour in a cotton cloth and wrap it well and steam cook it for about 15 to 20 minutes.
- You can prepare Kozhukattai, idiyappam, rice puttu using this rice flour.
- Just dry this flour in sunlight and keep it in an air tight container and store in a fridge for future use.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
