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Healthy Food Recipes - Peanut Poorna Kozhukattai (Verkadalai Kozhukattai)

Posted on: 25/Feb/2015 11:38:35 AM
Ingredients:
For Outer Dough:
  • Raw rice flour – 1 cup
  • Salt- as required
  • Oil – 2 tbsp.
  • Water – 1 cup
For Peanut Stuff:
  • Peanut (Verkadalai) – ½ cup
  • Jaggery (grated) – ½ cup
Method of preparation of Peanut Stuff:
  • Heat a heavy bottomed pan on a medium heat, slowly roast the peanuts. Cool and rub the skins off.



  • Grind the roasted peanuts into a little coarse powder and set aside.



  • Add the grated jaggery along with the grinded peanut powder in the mixer and grind it to a coarse powder.


Method of preparation of outer dough:
  1. Boil the required quantity of water along with a required salt and a spoon of oil in it.
  2. Take a cup of rice flour in a mixing bowl. Add boiling water little by little to the flour, mix very well using a ladle and make a soft dough.



  3. Allow it cool for some time and then knead it well. The dough should be soft and smooth.
  4. Add a spoon of oil on top of the flour, so that the dough will not get dried off.





  5. Grease your hands and a plastic paper with oil. Take a ball of the rice flour dough and place it in the middle of the plastic paper and press it as thin as possible using a heavy bottomed vessel.



  6. Place the mixed peanut and Jaggery powder in the middle of the disc shaped flour and close it. 



  7. Pinch the edges of the dough and seal it.



  8. Hold the dough at the edges and press it with the finger to get the neat finishing touch for the dish. 
  9. Follow the same for the rest of the dough.
  10. When you are preparing a lot quantity of Kozhukattai, place first few Kozhukattai in first row and close the lid for 2 mintes. And then place another row, so that it never gets stick on to each other.
  11. Place them in a greased idly plates and steam them for 10 minutes. 



  12. You can very well use the rice flour packet available in the market, or you can prepare it of own in your house, store it and use whenever needed.


  13. Serve either hot or warm and enjoy the delicicious Peanut Poorna Kozhukattai!
Tips for homemade Rice Flour:
  • Wash and soak required quantity of rice in water for about 2 hours.
  • Drain water completely and spread it on a cotton cloth for about 15 to 30 minutes.
  • Then grind this wet rice in a mixer without the addition of water. Sometimes you might not get a nice powder while grinding in a mixer. In that case, you can grind the rice in flour mill and get it done. And in this case, no need for sieving the rice.
  • Now sieve the grinded wet rice.
  • Heat the pan and just d dry roast the grinded wet rice flour. Keep the stove in low flame. The texture should be similar to sandy texture and never roast it deeper.
  • Or instead of dry roast it, keep the flour in a cotton cloth and wrap it well and steam cook it for about 15 to 20 minutes.
  • You can prepare Kozhukattai, idiyappam, rice puttu using this rice flour.
  • Just dry this flour in sunlight and keep it in an air tight container and store in a fridge for future use.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath

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