Olai Kozhukattai Recipe -2 | Panai Olai or Palm Leaf Kozhukattai Recipe -2

Ingredients :

Rice Flour - 1/2 kg

Karupatti - 1/4 kg

Grated Coconut - 1 cup

Cardamom - 5 tsp

Broken Pachai Payaru / Green gram - 50 gram

Palm leaf or Panai olai- 20 nos

Preparation :

• Heat the kadai, add broken green gram and saute it until the color becomes slight brown. Transfer it to a bowl and keep aside to become cool.
• Add rice flour and roast it for few minutes. Keep it aside to become cool.
• Grind the cardamom.
• Heat the kadai now, add water and karupatti allow it to boil. Once the karupatti is melted then switch off the flame and strain it.
• Take a big bowl, add rice flour, grated coconut, cardamom powder, broken green gram and mix it well.
• Make a dough by mixing the karupatti syrup little by little with the mixed rice flour. It should be similar to a chapathi dough.
• Clean the palm leaves and cut it into a 6 inch(length) pieces.
• Put the dough in the center of the palm leaf (olai) and cover it with another palm leaf. Tie it with a palm leaves thread.( Split the palm leaf to some 4 thin pieces  and use it like a thread)
• Arrange it in a greased idli plate and steam cook it for 20 to 30 minutes.
• Now panai olai / palm leaf kozhukattai is ready to serve.
  

Note :

• Add karupatti syrup as per your taste.
• You can use Jaggery instead of karupatti.