Kozhukatta/ Steamed rice dumplings with coconut-jaggery filling
Kozhukatta/ Steamed rice dumplings with coconut-jaggery filling

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Kozhukatta or Kozhukkattai கொழுகட்டை is a popular South Indian dumpling made from rice flour, with a filling of grated coconut, jaggery, or chakkavaratti. Healthy Rice dumplings with coconut, Jaggery, and natural spices. Dears, please do share your feedback about the recipe in the. You might be wondering how kozhukatta (steamed rice dumpling with coconut & jaggery filling) is related to Easter, right?

Kozhukatta/ Steamed rice dumplings with coconut-jaggery filling is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Kozhukatta/ Steamed rice dumplings with coconut-jaggery filling is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have kozhukatta/ steamed rice dumplings with coconut-jaggery filling using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Kozhukatta/ Steamed rice dumplings with coconut-jaggery filling:
  1. Take 1 cup rice flour Roasted
  2. Make ready 1 cup Water
  3. Make ready as required Salt
  4. Get 1/2 cup Jaggery
  5. Prepare 3/4 cup Coconut grated
  6. Make ready 1/4 tsp Cumin powder
  7. Get 1/4 tsp Cardamom powder

Take the flat dough rounds and place a little filling in the middle, close and cover with the dough to make balls. You can make several balls as required and steam in a. It is a steamed rice dumpling (rice ball) filled with coconut, jaggery and some Indian spices. It is a tasty and healthy breakfast as well as evening snack too.

Steps to make Kozhukatta/ Steamed rice dumplings with coconut-jaggery filling:
  1. First the filling has to be made: Melt jaggery in little water and strain it, then add the coconut and cook till the water is dried up. Now add cumin and cardamom powder and mix well.  Remove from heat and set aside.
  2. For the dough: Boil 1 cup of water along with little salt. Now give the rice flour into a deep vessel and add the boiled water little by little to the rice flour and mix with a wooden spoon.  Let the dough cool for a few minutes, so that you can form the kozhukattas.
  3. Knead the dough once more and now the consistency should be not too sticky. For the ball shaped kozhukatta, grab a medium size dough ball, place it in your palm and flatten it with your other hand, form it to a cup shape by infolding it. Give a teaspoon or two of the filling into the "cup", cover it and shape it to a ball.
  4. You may have also noticed the other shaped kozhukatta on the photo, to make that shape grab a little more dough than for the ball, flatten it between your palms and now instead of making a cup shape, keep flattening the dough in your palm and make it round. Place the filling as a row in the middle of the dough and fold it and seal it by pressing the endings firmly.
  5. Repeat the step 3 or 4  with the rest of the dough and filling. Its up to you weather you make it ball shaped or the semi circle shape, the taste is going to be wonderful anyway.
  6. Now steam the kozhukattas in a steamer or "appachembu" for approx 9-10 minutes on medium heat. Let it cool for a few minutes and then enjoy with some chai.

It is a steamed rice dumpling (rice ball) filled with coconut, jaggery and some Indian spices. It is a tasty and healthy breakfast as well as evening snack too. Back home in Kerala my mother prepares "kozhukatta" for every Palm Sunday eve and morning as a part of traditional Christian custom. Kozhukotta is a steamed rice dumplins with a sweet coconut and jaggery centre. They are shaped like little eggs and are an integral part of Easter festivities Make a hole in the centre of each ball and fill with a small quantity of the coconut mixture and seal it.

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