Thursday, May 2, 2013

Paal kozukkatai / Rice dumplings in Jaggery syrup



  Paal kozukkatai is the small rice dumplings served along with sweetened milk / coconut milk. It is sweetened by adding the sugar / Jaggery.
  It was a healthy snack. It is a festival food , made specially during vinayagar chathurthi , Birthday of Lord Vinayaga.
 It can also be made on other days if we are having a sweet tooth. This was my mom’s recipe , as I learnt from her. She makes this on the vinayagar chathurthi.
  This was a easy and healthy sweet as well as snack.
 It is easy to make with few ingredients that are easily available in everyone's pantry.

Requirements :
For Kozukattai :
Homemade Rice flour  - 1 cup
Ghee – 1 tbs
Water – 1 cup
Salt as required
For the sauce :
Jaggery – 1 cup
Milk – 1 cup
Coconut milk – 1 ½ cup
Water – ½ cup
Cardamom powder – ¼ tsp


Method :
Dissolve the jiggery in the water till it is fully immersed and bring to boil. Strain to remove any dust or impurities.
In a bowl , add the rice flour , salt and mix well.
Add in the water and milk , mix well to avoid any lumps. If the dough is hard add more water to make it smooth , as we has to cook this dough.
Add this dough to a nonstick pan with ghee and cook in medium flame.
Keep stirring.
After few minutes , the colour of the dough will change form white to lightly transparent- the rice flour is cooked.
When we touch this cooked dough , it must not stick to hand , switch off the flame.
Let it cool and make into small round balls. Any desired shape can be made. Cover with a wet cloth to avoid drying.
Add the milk and water to a heavy bottomed pan and bring to boil.
When it boils , add thse shaped balls and let it simmer for few minutes.
These rice balls will cook in the milk and gradually raises to top after few minutes.
Now ,add the coconut milk and mix gently.
Add the prepared jiggery syrup and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
Sprinkle the cardamom powder and mix gently.
Take off from flame and serve.
It can be served warm or chilled.

Paal Kozukkatai is ready to serve.
Note :
Always add the coconut milk at the last to avoid curdling.
Use cold water to make the rice dough as it avoids lumps.
The shaped rice balls can be cooked in boiling water before adding to the boiling milk.



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12 comments:

  1. paal kozhukattai looks so yummmy and delicious dear :)

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  2. Delicious paal kozhukattai Sharanya...
    Very lovely.

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  3. Hi Saranya, So sorry that I couldn't visit your space till now. Love these kozhukkottas. They will be a perfect comfort food for me :)

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  4. very very yummy dear... all time favorite...

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  5. never heard of this before but looks tempting

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  6. only months back i had this for the first time in my life and fell in love with this melting moments......cute kutti kozhukatai in milk and coconut mixture

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  7. Super yummy and so authentic... very tempting and very delicious... Thanks for sending this yummy recipe to my event.. Looking for more yummy recipes...

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  8. creamy and yummy!!! so authentic and so delicious.. Thanks for sending this yummy recipe to my event.. Looking for more yummy recipes...

    Sowmya
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