Pal Kozhakkattai (Small Rice Balls in Molasses/Brown Sugar Syrup)

Serving: 4 to 6 person |Type: Chettinad Sweet

Ingredients:

Rice Flour -1 ½ cup
Coconut -3tbsp
Coconut Milk -½ cup
Brown sugar -1 ¼ cup
Cardamom Powder -¼tsp
Salt -2pinch

Method:

  1. Grind the coconut with little water add it in to the rice flour.
  2. Add boiling water into the rice flour and salt mix it and make it soft dough.
  3. Make a kozhakkattai using your left palm and right index finger.
  4. Take small dough and make it small size kozhakkattais, either oval or round, and keep it aside.
  5. Take a heavy bottom vessel add 3 to 4 cups of water and half of the brown sugar.
  6. Boil it well and when the water starts bubbling add 10 to 15 kozhakkatai at a time .
  7. Then when the boiled kozhakkattai floats to the top, add some more of the uncooked kozhakkatai and keep doing this until all kozhakkattai is in the syrup.
  8. Then add the remaining brown sugar, boil it until it gets thick and then add coconut milk and cardamom powder.
  9. Then turn off the stove.
  10. Let it rest for 15 to 30 minutes  then serve it.

Note:

  1. The original recipe of this kozhakkattai is making with jaggery but if you want you can make with sugar.
  2. Instead of rice flour you can use soaked and grind boiled rice.
  3. If you have iddiyappa mavu you can use it.
  4. You can add sukku podi (dried ginger powder) while turn off the stove.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply