Sweet Kozhukattai

Sweet Stuffing in Rice flour.

During Vinayagar Chathurthi in India, people prepare this God's (our's) favorite dish. Easy recipe and so yummy that I cant stop eating that.. Though its a sweet kind, It does not have artificial sugar. It has brown sugar (Jaggery). I got myself in doing the best kozhukattai(s) after seeing  one of my aunts preparing them.

Ingredients: 
Rice Flour - 2 cup
Coconut - Shredded 1 cup
Jaggery - 1 cup powdered, though not so fine
Cardamom - 3-4 nos
Ghee - 2 tsp
Salt - a pinch
Hot water - 2 cup
Coconut oil - 4 tsp (or any other cooking oil)

Procedure:

• Prepare stuffing first by heating coconut and jaggery together in a hot pan. The jaggery melts and the coconut starts smelling sweet.

• Add some crushed cardamom to the mixture.Let it cook till it gets little thicken add some ghee to it. We can add little rice flour to make it thick. But it needs some more cooking to take off the raw rice flour smell.

• Let it cool down for a while to handle easy to make some balls out of them.

• Now boil water in a separate container.
• In a mixing bowl, add a pinch of salt to the rice flour. Add hot water little by little and mix with the rice flour with a wooden spatula. Mix well so that the rice flour comes to a molding consistency. Mix it with your hand when its ok to handle

• Heat a wide pan and add some oil. Add the wet rice flour and saute for 5 min. Stir well until the rice flour is been nicely cooked with the oil.

• Take small ball of cooked rice flour and make a thin small bowl kind using your hands. To handle the flour, rub little oil on two palms. 

• Place a sweet ball inside it and close the bowl and pinch out the extra flour.Make some more kozhukattai like this. Now its ready to go for steaming.

• Using a steamer cook them for at least 5 minutes. Sweet kozhukattai is ready to go into your mouth.

• If we have some more rice flour left, just saute little chopped onion, curry leaves and green chillies and mix it with the flour and make some shape with your hand and steam cook them. Now kara kozhukattai is ready. It can be served as such or with some chutney.