Sunday, March 25, 2007

Kaara kozhukkattai

This is my Amma's recipe.

Ingredients:
Boiled rice(puzhungal rice) - 3 cups
Scraped Coconut - 1.5 cups
green chillies - 4/5
salt
cut curry leaves
chopped coriander leaves
chopped onions - 1 cup

Seasoning:
mustard - 1/2 tsp
urad dal - 1 tsp
channa dal - 1 tsp
oil - 2 tsp

Method:
1. Soak boiled (puzhungal) rice in water for 2 hours
2. Grind the rice with enough water in the grinder very coarsely(to broken wheat consistency)
3. Add coconut, chillies and salt to the rice and grind further till it reaches rava consistency
4. In a pan, add some oil and mustard. After the mustard starts spluttering, add urad dal and channa dal. When the dal reddens, add cut onions and fry till it turns translucent. Then add curry leaves and chopped coriander to this and remove from the stove.
5. Add this seasoning to the ground rice mixture and mix well.
6. Cook this in the microwave for 3 minutes(stirring once after 2 minutes)
7. When the batter is warm enough, take lime sized batter in the hand and make kozhukkattai shaped balls. Now keep 8 of these in one idly plate and steam cook in the idly cooker(just as you make idly).
8. Kozhukkattai is now ready to be served. Any pickle or coriander chutney is a good combination for this kozhukkattai.

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