kolukattai

Kozhukattai -savory version

    Kozhukattai is a popular South Indian delicacy made using rice flour  by adding jaggery and coconut for sweet version and with onions greenchilli and curry leaves with tempering for savory version. Similarly it is made in all parts of India as modaks. In Tamil Nadu, the dish is traditionally associated with the Hindu God Ganesha and is prepared as an offering (neivathiyam) on the occasion of Vinayagar chaturthi.

Ingredients:

• Rice flour 500 grams
• Oil as needed
• Salt as needed
• Mustard seeds 1/2tbsp
• Cumin seeds 1/2tbsp
• Channa dal 1/2tbsp
• Large onion chopped
• Green chilli 3 nos
• Curry leaves 3 string
• Corainder leaves handfull

Method:

Take the rice flour in a bowl (I have used store bought one will share the homemade version in future)

Add salt to taste

In a tadka pan.add oil once hot add mustard seeds to splutter.

add channa dal fry until slight brown

add cumin seeds to fry

add the finely chopped onion with greenchilli,curry leaves and coriander leaves. saute well until onion gets cooked

add the mixture to the rice flour.mix well

 

add water little by little .make into as chapatti dough consistency.once completed it should not stick to the hand

the dough should be soft

take a small amount of dough and keep in the hand as shown in the picture

give a gentle press by the fingers to get the impression on the dough.

will get the shapes as in the figure

Repeat the same process for the remaining dough.arrange the dumplings in the idli tray or in steamer plates. steam for about 15 minutes in low flame.once done remove from the plate and serve hot

Kozhukattai with Kara chutney