Healthy Food Recipes - Sweet Pidi Kozhukattai
Posted on: 06/Feb/2015 2:39:20 PM
Ingredients:
- Rice Flour - 1 cup
- Jaggery - 1/2 cup
- Grated coconut - 1 tbsp.
- Ghee – 1 tbsp.
- Cardamom powder (Elachi Powder) - a small pinch
- Water - 3/4 cup
Method of preparation:
- Soak jaggery in 3/4 cup water, crush it well. Let the jaggery gets dissolved well in water in low flame.
- Strain to remove impurities and take the syrup in a heavy bottomed pan or preferably non-stick pan and heat up the syrup. Add cardamom powder and the grated coconut.
- Then add the rice flour. Keep on stirring the contents while adding the rice flour, so as to avoid the formation of the lumps and be sure to keep the stove in low flame.
- Now you will get the thicker consistency, as the rice flour gets mixed with the jaggery syrup. Now add a spoon of ghee and stir well. It’s time to switch off the flame.
- When it is still warm, make Kozhukattai shapes. Grease your hands with either oil or ghee. Then take a small portion and make cylindrical shapes or even make small balls and press it with your fingers to get the impression.
- Repeat the same for the entire mixture. Then arrange it in a steamer plate and steam it for 10mins.
- Serve either hot / warm!
Tips:
- Don’t let the jaggery to form any syrup it should be watery, only then rice flour will get cooked.
- In case if you want, you can very well add ½ spoon of dry ginger (sukku) powder to the jaggery syrup.
- You can alter the quantity of both water and jaggery depends on your taste.
- While steam cook the Kozhukattai, spread it evenly on the plate, never jam pack it.
- When you are preparing a mass quantity of Kozhukattai, first a few Kozhukattai in first row and close the lid. Allow it to boil for 5 minutes. And then place another row, so that it never gets stick on to each other.
- 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.
Tips to Prepare Rice Flour on your own in house:
- 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
