Kolukattai

This is a Chathurthi special recipe!Only when kolukattai is made Vinayagar Chathurthi is complete! It is a simple, tasty & healthy dish!

These are soft steam cooked rice flour dumplings. You can make it with idiyappam  flour or kolukattai flour or rice flour. I have shared a recipe which uses rice flour. Because rice flour is always in store!

If you are using kollukattai flour or idiyppam flour you can skip the step 2 mentioned in below recipe. Happy Cooking!Cheers! 

Ingredients:

Rice flour – 1 cup

Moong dhal – 1 tbsp

Coconut – ½ cup grated

Jeera - ½   tsp

Water – ½ cup + 1 tbsp

Sugar – 1 tbsp

Salt to taste

Method:

1. In a pan dry roast moong dhal till colour changes to light brown. Transfer it to a bowl.

2.In the same pan put one cup rice flour and gently turn it around 2 to 3 times and switch of the flame. The flour should be hot and not roasted! 

3.  In a bowl add the rice flour, moongdhal, coconut, sugar, salt,jeera

4. Boil water. And add it little by little to the flour and make a dough as you make for chapathi.(If needed you can taste the dough and adjust salt & sugar)

5. Take small ball size dough in your palm. Bring it towards your fingers and give a gentle press. This gives a nice shape! 

6. Meanwhile heat an Idli pan. When the its steaming hot you can place all the kolukattai and cook it in one batch. If your device is small do it in 2 or 3 batches.

Happy Vinayagar Chathurthi!!