Rice flour | homemade rice flour 1/2 cup Salt 2 pinches Sesame oil 2 tsp Water as needed Green moong dal 1/4 cup Coconut oil 1/2 tsp Coconut 1 tblsp Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp salt as needed Asafoetida a pinch Red chili 1 Video on how to make elai kozhukattai Method:
Soak the green moong dal for an hour. Pressure cook this in the cooker for 3-4 whistles with less water. Add little salt and a pinch of asafoetida.
Once done drain the water if any and keep it aside. In a pan add coconut oil and throw in the mustard seeds, red chili and curry leaves. Add the cooked dal to the pan and mix well.
Mash the dal coarsely with a potato masher.
Discard the red chili and add the grated coconut to this and mix well. Mix well.
Poornam | filling is ready for stuffing. Now lets make the outer cover. I followed a different method. Mix half cup of flour ( i used store bought kozhukattai maavu) with water. Bring it to the consistency of dosa batter. Add salt and 1 tsp of sesame oil to this.
In a pan add the batter and cook this in a low flame till the water evaporates and the mixtures comes to whole mass.
Transfer this to a plate. Once it is warm knead the dough with greased hands and keep it covered with a damp cloth.
Lets make the elai kozhukattai. Take a lemon sized dough ball. Grease a small portion of banana leaf. Place the dough in the center of the leaf and using your hands flatten it.
Place the poornam at one end and fold the leaf .
Repeat this for the rest of the dough. Steam this for 7-8 minutes. Slowly take out from the leaf after 2 minutes.
With the banana leaves i had i could make 5 elai kozhukattais and remaining 2 i made with hands and i made i modakam shape too. Elai kozhukattais are ready for neivedhyam.
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