Kolukattai or modhaka's is an Indian Festival dish. Vinayagar Chathurthi is celebrated as god Ganapathi's Birth day. Devotees prepare kolukattai which is Lord Ganapathy's favorite.
Kolukattai is a sweet dish. Sweet fillings are kept inside rice flour. My favorite part in this dish making is the folding part. In my school days every year i use to make so many kolukattai designs while sitting with my mommy (helping her). Am sure all your kids will enjoy the folding part. Whatever they do will turn out into a cute design. Kids love vinayagar god so let them do it for his birthday😊😊.
Kolukattai is made of pachai arisi flour (Raw rice flour). To know how to prepare this flour at home hit my basics tab. It is a separate post on how to prepare this flour. The stuffing inside is made of jaggery, coconut and kadalai paruppu. A day or 2 days before chathurthi my mom plans task from grinding flour to everything.
Ingredients:
Rice flour - 1 cup
Grated Coconut - 1/2 cup
Jaggery - 1 cup
Ghee - 1 tsp
Water - 1 1/2 cup
Salt - pinch
Method:
For stuffing:
1) First lets prepare jaggery. Heat jaggery with little water. Once it is dissolved filter it to remove impurities. Let it cool down.
2) Dry roast the kadalai paruppu and cook in pressure cooker. Drain the water from paruppu and grind it with jaggery and coconut until paste.
3) Add water if required. mostly water is not needed as jaggery and paruppu has enough moisture. I like to grind coarsely.
4) At this point you can just add ghee and mix it or in a pan heat ghee and add paste to it.
For kolukattai:
1) Sieve the rice flour twice to remove granules. Take flour in a bowl with required salt and mix well.
2) Heat the mesured cup of water (not too hot). Add the water to the rice flour and mix well to form a soft dough. You can grease your hand with oil while kneading.
3) The dough should not dry up. so close it with damp cloth.
4) Make balls, and shape it using your thump by pressing in the middle. It forms a cup shape. Do not make it too thin or too thick. Or place the ball on a small bowl (greased with oil) upside down. Press to get the bowl shape.
5) Keep a tsp of the stuffing that we have made in the center and close it to make a modhaka shape or any of your interest.
6) Also can make round shape like chapathi (but small). and place the stuffing in the middle . Fold into half and seal it by pressing the edges.
7) Place the prepared kolukattai's on a idly plate. Steam it for 10 mins.
8) Let it cool for 5 mins and taste it. Feel the juicy stuffing inside and enjoy!!!!
Thank you very much for stopping by my blog. Your comments are very precious and I treasure them a lot. Please leave your valuable comments and suggestions here.
Kolukattai is a sweet dish. Sweet fillings are kept inside rice flour. My favorite part in this dish making is the folding part. In my school days every year i use to make so many kolukattai designs while sitting with my mommy (helping her). Am sure all your kids will enjoy the folding part. Whatever they do will turn out into a cute design. Kids love vinayagar god so let them do it for his birthday😊😊.
Kolukattai is made of pachai arisi flour (Raw rice flour). To know how to prepare this flour at home hit my basics tab. It is a separate post on how to prepare this flour. The stuffing inside is made of jaggery, coconut and kadalai paruppu. A day or 2 days before chathurthi my mom plans task from grinding flour to everything.
Ingredients:
Rice flour - 1 cup
Grated Coconut - 1/2 cup
Jaggery - 1 cup
Ghee - 1 tsp
Water - 1 1/2 cup
Salt - pinch
Method:
For stuffing:
2) Dry roast the kadalai paruppu and cook in pressure cooker. Drain the water from paruppu and grind it with jaggery and coconut until paste.
3) Add water if required. mostly water is not needed as jaggery and paruppu has enough moisture. I like to grind coarsely.
4) At this point you can just add ghee and mix it or in a pan heat ghee and add paste to it.
For kolukattai:
1) Sieve the rice flour twice to remove granules. Take flour in a bowl with required salt and mix well.
3) The dough should not dry up. so close it with damp cloth.
4) Make balls, and shape it using your thump by pressing in the middle. It forms a cup shape. Do not make it too thin or too thick. Or place the ball on a small bowl (greased with oil) upside down. Press to get the bowl shape.
5) Keep a tsp of the stuffing that we have made in the center and close it to make a modhaka shape or any of your interest.
6) Also can make round shape like chapathi (but small). and place the stuffing in the middle . Fold into half and seal it by pressing the edges.
7) Place the prepared kolukattai's on a idly plate. Steam it for 10 mins.
8) Let it cool for 5 mins and taste it. Feel the juicy stuffing inside and enjoy!!!!
Thank you very much for stopping by my blog. Your comments are very precious and I treasure them a lot. Please leave your valuable comments and suggestions here.
No comments:
Post a Comment