Pidi kozhukattai- How to make sweet kozhukattai

Pidi kolukattai is a rice-based traditional Sweet. This is loved by everyone who loves light sweet. It can also be a good evening snack too.

This is one of the traditional festive sweet that is made during Kartikeya Deepam festival and Vinayaka Chaturthi.

sweet pidi kozhukattai
Sweet pidi kozhukattai

Though it is the festival sweet, we make it home as and when we all like to have this as snack.

One of the easy sweets that can be made at home quickly. We can make spicy as well as sweet kolukattai. Here I show you how to make sweet pidi kozhukattai.

As we add jaggery to it, it turns out to be healthy sweet.

I hope you will give it a try and enjoy this healthy sweet.

You might like some of my other sweets and snack recipes too. Do them out here:

  1. Adhirasam – traditional sweet recipe
  2. Thenkulal murukku – a crispy snack
  3. Tirunelveli halwa – famous sweet
  4. Ripe banana appam
  5. Pal kozhukattai – another rice based sweet

Required ingredients for Pidi kozhukattai:

Rice flour – 1 cup
Water – 1 1/2 cup
Jaggery – 1/ 2 cup (if you like it sweeter, make it 2/3 cup)
Grated coconut – 1/4 cup
Cardamom powder – 1/4 teaspoon
Dry ginger powder – 1/4 teaspoon
Ghee 1 teaspoon

Step-by-Step Pics with Preparation Method

  1. Heat Kadai, add jaggery and water. Boil to dissolve the jaggery and then filter it.
    sweet pidi kozhukattai
    sweet pidi kozhukattai
  2. Add the filtered jaggery water, grated coconut, cardamom powder and dry ginger powder and bring to boil.
    sweet pidi kozhukattai
  3. After the water is boiled, add rice flour little by little and keep stirring.
    sweet pidi kozhukattai
  4. Add ghee and keep stirring in low flame until the dough is not sticky to the kadai.
    sweet pidi kozhukattai
  5. Once it is done, transfer to bowl and allow it cool for 5 minutes. Mould the dough by fist and make shape. Do this for entire dough.
    Once it is done, transfer to bowl and allow it cool for 5 minutes.
  6. Steam cook for 7 to 8 minutes and remove once it cooked and looks shiny.
    Once it is done, transfer to bowl and allow it cool for 5 minutes.
  7. Serve hot.
    sweet pidi kozhukattai
sweet pidi kozhukattai

Sweet Pidi kozhukattai – Recipe card

Viji Sashidharan
Rice based sweet, healthy snack made with jaggery
Cook Time 15 minutes
Cooling time 5 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Snack, Sweet
Cuisine Indian
Servings 16 numbers

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup Rice flour Packed idiyappam rice flour also works well for this
  • 1/2 cup Jaggery Prefer darker color to get the nice jaggery coloured kolukattai.
  • 1/4 cup Fresh grated coconut
  • 1/4 tsp Cardamom powder
  • 1/4 tsp Dry ginger powder
  • 1 tsp Ghee

Instructions
 

Make dough

  • Heat Kadai, add jaggery and water. Boil to dissolve the jaggery and then filter it.
  • Add the filtered jaggery water, grated coconut, cardamom powder and dry ginger powder and bring to boil.
  • After the water is boiled, add rice flour little by little and keep stirring.
  • Add ghee and keep stirring in low flame until the dough is not sticky to the kadai. Once it is done, transfer to bowl and allow it cool for 5 minutes.

Mould by fist and steam cook

  • Mould the dough by fist and make shape. Do this for entire dough.
  • Keep in idly plate and Steam cook for 7 to 8 minutes.
    After it is cooked and looks shiny.
  • Serve hot.

Video

Notes

Notes: 
  1. Prefer darker color jaggery to get the nice jaggery coloured kolukattai. If you want it more sweeter, you can use 2/3 cup jaggery or adjust as per your taste.
  2. Water to rice flour ratio is 1:1.5 generally. But, it may vary slightly based on the rice flour. So, adjust the water to idiyappam like consistency. 
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