Paal kozhukattai is a Indian sweet recipe made using rice flour. The rice flour dumplings are cooked to the perfection and added to a sweetened coconut sauce. Easy Indian sweet recipe to make on any occasion!
Chettinad paal kozhukattai recipe
Paal (Milk) Kozhukattai is a famous recipe made in chettinad region during festivals, especially during “Vinayagar Chathurthi”. Small rice balls (dumplings) made up of rice flour is cooked and tossed in a sweetened milk sauce. The sauce for the recipe is made up of coconut milk and jaggery. You can also make this recipe with sugar and milk but traditionally coconut milk and jaggery are used for this recipe.
Ganesh Chathurthi is around the corner, how about making some kozhukattai different from the regular one. Yes! You will love this paal kozhukatti recipe and will make it often. Traditionally kozhukattai’s are made by soaking the raw rice for hours, grinding them and cooking them for the dough consistency and then shaping them to kozhukattai’s. But now there are ready made flour’s available at the market, we can use them according to the instructions to make the kozhukattai’s.
Main ingredients to make paal kozhukattai
Kozhukattai flour or Idiyappam flour works best for this recipe. If you are using normal rice flour then don’t forget to roast it before using it. We almost half cook while making the dough for the kozhukattai. So it’s easy to cook further in the milk sauce. For the vegan version you don’t want to use dairy products, instead use coconut milk or almond milk for making sweetened jaggery sauce.
Kozhukatti’s are offered as “Neivedyam” for loard Ganesha on “Ganesh Chathurthi”. It’s famous festival in India. So in most on the Indian homes, they will make different type of kozhukattai’s to offer god to seek the blessings.
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Let’s jump into the recipe. The ingredients mentioned can serve 2 peoples, check the ingredient list below.
Chettinad paal Kozhukattai recipe|How to make paal kozhukattai
Ingredients
To make kozhukattai (rice dumplings):
- ½ cup of idiyappam flour or rice flour
- 3/4 cup cup of water
- ½ teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of ghee
To make the sweetened sauce:
- 2 cups of milk
- ½ cup of water + ¼ cup
- ½ cup of coconut milk
- ½ cup of jaggery
- 1 teaspoon of cardamom powder
Instructions
- Making jaggery syrup is the first step. Add the ½ cup of grated jaggery into a pan with ¼ cup of water. Once the jaggery melts and combines with the water it will form a syrupy consistency. Switch off the flame and allow the jaggery syrup to cool a bit.
- For making the kozhukattai, heat a pan with ¾ cup of water. Add the salt and ghee and mix it. Once the water is heated add the flour and mix it
- Mix the flour without any lumps until it forms is stiff dough without sticking to the pan. Once the dough is formed transfer it to a plate and switch off the flame. Once the dough is warm enough to handle, knead the dough for 3-5 minutes until you get smooth crack free dough.
- Apply some ghee on both the hands (palm) and take a small portion of the dough and make it small round balls/dumplings. Similarly make all the dough to small round balls (kozhukattai) and cover these balls with a damp cloth to avoid drying. Meanwhile heat a heavy bottom pan with 2 cups of milk and ½ cup water.
- Once the milk starts boiling add the balls gently into the milk. As soon as they have added, the balls sit at the bottom of the pan. Cover and cook for 15 minutes on a medium flame so that the balls comes up and floats on top which means the dumplings/balls (kozhukattai) have cooked perfectly.
- Now add the ½ cup of thick coconut milk and cook it for another 2 minutes. The sauce would have thickened by now.
- Finally add some freshly grounded cardamom pods and add the cooled sugar syrup and mix it well. Switch off the flame after 5 minutes. The kozhukattai’s must have absorbed some sweetened jaggery sauce and ready to eat.
- You can serve this paal kozhukatti while it is still warm or chilled also.
Notes
- To get a crack free smooth kozhukattai balls, kneading the dough is the important step.
- You can replace the jaggery syrup with the sugar or condensed milk.
- If you are afraid to add the kozhukattai’s directly to the milk then you can steam cook the kozhukattai separately and then add it to the jaggery sauce.
- Instead of coconut milk you can also use almond milk or cashew milk. For the perfectly cooked kozhukattai, cook it on a medium flame until the kozhukattai’s floats on top.
- Cooling the jaggery syrup is an important step. Because it may spoil the milk if the syrup is added warm. Instead of cardamom powder you can use any other essences for flavoring the kozhukattai’s.
- The sauce tends to get thicker, once it starts to cool down, so switch off the flame while the sauce is in running consistency. If you find the sauce is too thick, then dilute it with little water and reheat it.
Nutrition
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Great post.
Thank you!