South-Indian Pidi Kozakattai
South-Indian Pidi Kozakattai

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, south-indian pidi kozakattai. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Hi all , Here again with a very classic UPma kozhukatai aka pidi kozhukattai recipe.upmakozhukattai is a very classic recipe in many south indian home. Upma. #southindianrecipes#traditionalrecipes#breakfastrecipes This video is about pidi upma kozhukkattai. We make sweet pidi kozhukattai very often.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook south-indian pidi kozakattai using 13 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make South-Indian Pidi Kozakattai:
  1. Take 1 cup Rice
  2. Take 2 tablespoons Toor dal/ split yellow lentil
  3. Make ready 1 tablespoon Moong dal/ split green gram
  4. Get 1 teaspoon chana dal/ Bengal gram
  5. Prepare 1 dry red chilli
  6. Get 1/4 teaspoon aesafoetida
  7. Prepare 4-5 pepper corns
  8. Get 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  9. Make ready 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
  10. Get 4-5 curry leaves
  11. Get 2 teaspoons Salt as per taste or
  12. Get 1 tablespoon oil for tempering
  13. Get Homemade butter/ chutney/ sambar to serve

Before marriage, my mom used to prepare this rarely for breakfast. The Chettinad Style Uppu Mani Kozhukattai Recipe is a traditional south indian rice flour based dumpling that is made during festivals especially Ganesh Chaturthi and Varalakshmi Vratam. It's a super simple recipe that you make at home and make your festivals special. Kozhukattai (Pidi Kolukattai) - A sweet steamed dumpling made with rice flour, gram dal, coconut and jaggery.

Instructions to make South-Indian Pidi Kozakattai:
  1. Wash and soak rice for 15 minutes.
  2. Drain the water and spread over a clean towel and let it half dry.
  3. Grind the rice into rawa like coarse powder.
  4. In a bowl soak toor dal along with a dry red chilli. And in another cup soak chana and moong dal.
  5. After 15 minutes of soaking grind toor dal and red chilli with coconut.
  6. Crush pepper corns, cumin seeds and aesafoetida to a coarse powder.
  7. Heat oil in a wok and add oil, after it's hot add mustard seeds and let them splutter. After that add pepper cumin and aesafoetida powder. Add curry leaves and roast.
  8. Add the soaked, drained chana and moong dal. Saute for 2 minutes.
  9. Add the ground paste and roast for 2 minutes. Just until the paste loses it's stickyness.
  10. Add 3 cups of water and let it come to a boil.
  11. Add some salt at this point.
  12. Gradually add 2 tablespoons of rice flour by stirring continuously.
  13. After adding all of the rice flour, it looks like this, keep stirring so there are no lumps.
  14. After 3-5 minutes the mixture will soak all the liquid and it will look like this. Cover and cook on low flame for 5 minutes. Switch off flame and leave it covered for some time. The mixture will cook in it's own steam.
  15. Take a small mixture squeeze between your palm and shape them into oblong Kozakattai. This method of making is called pidi.
  16. Keep in a steamer and let them cook for 12-15 minutes.
  17. Once done offer the Pidi Kozhakattai to Lord Ganesha before eating.
  18. In our bones children like to eat these with homemade white butter or homemade tangy jams. Other eat it with chutney, sambar, pickles or as is.

This can be served as an evening snack or as a light meal. Very scrumptious and tasty upma with broken raw rice along with Indian spices. Upma Kozhukattai is an easy to make breakfast. Again take the cooked upma and make pidi kozhukattai and steam. Pidi in Tamil language means "to hold".

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