Sweet Pidi kozhukattai - Recipe card
Rice based sweet, healthy snack made with jaggery
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.
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Notes
Notes:
- 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.
- 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.