Kozhukkatta (Stuffed Rice Balls)

KOZHUKKATTA   (STUFFED RICE BALLS)

 Ingredients         

Very fine rice flour                      2 cups

Water                                           2 1/4 cups

Salt to taste

Ghee                                            1 tb.sp

For the stuffing

Grated coconut                            1 cup

Jaggery                                        200gms

Cardamom                                   2

Method

Melt the jaggery with one cup of water, sieve it through a fine steel mesh. Keep a frying pan on stove, pour the melted jaggery and boil it to a slightly thick consistency, add grated coconut and stir till all water is absorbed, add powdered cardamom, stir well and keep aside.

            Boil water in another pan with salt and ghee, add rice flour and mix well with a ladle and keep aside. When it’s slightly cool knead the flour well with hands and make small lemon sized balls, make a depression in the middle and put a spoonful of the stuffing, close the opening with wet fingers. You can also use plastic moulds which are available in super markets. Steam the balls for 15 minutes. There will be 14 kozhukkattas with this measurement.

You can serve it hot or cold.

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