Pidi Kozhukattai

     This is an looted recipe from my MIL. When its a festival day either Pongal, Diwai or Tamil new year, this will definitely be there for our lunch. Till i forced myself to try this, i felt its a complex dish to try everythough i have seen the procedure plenty of times. But now, i just made this within 15 minutes and here comes for your views.

ALL YOU NEED:

Rice Flour	1/2 cups
Jaggery Powder	1/4 cup*
Cardomom	1 No.
Water	1 cup
Salt	Pinch
Coconut Flakes	5 spoons

METHOD:
     Sieve rice flour in a wide bowl and add coconut flakes. Let it sit for a while. Heat a pan, add powdered jaggery, water, cardomom and pinch salt, let it be in flame until jaggery gets dissolved. Once done, filter it in the sieved rice flour bowl, keep stirring it inbetween. Stir well, until it forms a dough by adding all the jaggery water. Now divide the dough into small roundels. Now take each roundels and press it in your palm gently which comes in oval shape. Once done, arrange all the oval shaped dough in a idly pot and steam it for 12 to 15 mins.

Note: *Jaggery ratio should be bit more than 1/4 cup or bit less than 1/2 cup.

- Sangeetha Nambi

Kollukattai

     Being a lazy girl, always i'll be very sceptical to take up sweet for preparation. I got 2 reasons behind that 1. We are not sweet loving family. 2. I need lot of patience to prepare the sweets. That too Kozhukattai, OMG!!!!! to be frank, this was the first time i prepared in my life time, that too because of Vinayagar Chathurthi fest. Usually if this occassion comes, will immediately run to my mom or in-laws place just to get free'd from this preparation but this time Vinayagar loved to taste my Kozhukattai and Sundal it seems :( due to some reason, we celebrated in our home :( So, i(Myself !!!) prepared this Kozhukatti and Sundal for Pooja. Finally, everything came out well and my lil one enjoyed thorougly and even the vinayagar too.... :P

P.S: My cam had some problem then. so here am sharing my procedure and the clicks with very bad clarity :(

ALL YOU NEED:

Rice Flour	1 cup
Salt	Pinch
Water	Required

For Stuffing:

Raosted Groundnut	1/2 cup
Powdered Jaggery	1/3 cup

METHOD:
     Do a whipper in mixie with unskined roasted groundnut and jaggery powder. Keep it aside. Take a wide bowl, add Rice flour, pinch of salt and make it as a dough without any lumps and it SHOULD NOT watery. Make even sized balls out of it. Take a polytene cover, grease it with oil, take a dough ball and flatten it using your finger until it comes thin. Now add a spoon of powdered groundnut + Jaggery mixture and close the both ends. Repeat the process. Now place all the kozhukattai in an idly plates and steam it for 10 minutes. Once done, allow it to cool down and Enjoy with Sundal !!!

Note: You can substitute groundnut with white/black roasted sessame seeds too.

    Sending to the event CWS-Peanuts hosted by Priya.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬