South-Indian Pidi Kozakattai
South-Indian Pidi Kozakattai

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Hi all , Here again with a very classic UPma kozhukatai aka pidi kozhukattai recipe.upmakozhukattai is a very classic recipe in many south indian home. Sweeten up your Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations with a delicious Sweet Pidi Kozhukattai recipe. Roasted rice and chana dal are ground and blended with a sweet.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook south-indian pidi kozakattai using 13 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make South-Indian Pidi Kozakattai:
  1. Make ready 1 cup Rice
  2. Prepare 2 tablespoons Toor dal/ split yellow lentil
  3. Take 1 tablespoon Moong dal/ split green gram
  4. Get 1 teaspoon chana dal/ Bengal gram
  5. Make ready 1 dry red chilli
  6. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon aesafoetida
  7. Prepare 4-5 pepper corns
  8. Make ready 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  9. Get 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
  10. Make ready 4-5 curry leaves
  11. Take 2 teaspoons Salt as per taste or
  12. Get 1 tablespoon oil for tempering
  13. Take Homemade butter/ chutney/ sambar to serve

Kozhukattai (Pidi Kolukattai) - A sweet steamed dumpling made with rice flour, gram dal, coconut and jaggery. This can be served as an evening snack or as a Sweet Pidi Kolukattai (also known as Vella Kozhukattai or Inipu Kozhukattai) is one of a traditional South Indian dumpling varieties that is the. Very scrumptious and tasty upma with broken raw rice along with Indian spices. Upma Kozhukattai is an easy to make breakfast.

Instructions to make South-Indian Pidi Kozakattai:
  1. Wash and soak rice for 15 minutes.
  2. Drain the water and spread over a clean towel and let it half dry.
  3. Grind the rice into rawa like coarse powder.
  4. In a bowl soak toor dal along with a dry red chilli. And in another cup soak chana and moong dal.
  5. After 15 minutes of soaking grind toor dal and red chilli with coconut.
  6. Crush pepper corns, cumin seeds and aesafoetida to a coarse powder.
  7. Heat oil in a wok and add oil, after it's hot add mustard seeds and let them splutter. After that add pepper cumin and aesafoetida powder. Add curry leaves and roast.
  8. Add the soaked, drained chana and moong dal. Saute for 2 minutes.
  9. Add the ground paste and roast for 2 minutes. Just until the paste loses it's stickyness.
  10. Add 3 cups of water and let it come to a boil.
  11. Add some salt at this point.
  12. Gradually add 2 tablespoons of rice flour by stirring continuously.
  13. After adding all of the rice flour, it looks like this, keep stirring so there are no lumps.
  14. After 3-5 minutes the mixture will soak all the liquid and it will look like this. Cover and cook on low flame for 5 minutes. Switch off flame and leave it covered for some time. The mixture will cook in it's own steam.
  15. Take a small mixture squeeze between your palm and shape them into oblong Kozakattai. This method of making is called pidi.
  16. Keep in a steamer and let them cook for 12-15 minutes.
  17. Once done offer the Pidi Kozhakattai to Lord Ganesha before eating.
  18. In our bones children like to eat these with homemade white butter or homemade tangy jams. Other eat it with chutney, sambar, pickles or as is.

Again take the cooked upma and make pidi kozhukattai and steam. Pidi in Tamil language means "to hold". Now arrange all the prepared pidi kozhukattais in a greased idli mold. Wishing All the reader Happy Ganesh Chaturthi. I like Raagi Pidi kozhukattai than modak, our neighbor used to give us this along with other yummy Ganesh Chaturthi goodies and I always liked raagi kozhukattai.

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