Olai Kozhukattai Recipe | Panai Olai or Palm Leaf Kozhukattai Recipe

Ingredients :

Rice Flour - 2 cup

Grated Coconut - 1 cup

Sugar - 1 cup

Cardamom - 5 tsp

Broken Pachai Payaru / Green gram - 3 tsp

Palm leaf or Panai olai- 20 nos

Preparation :

• Heat the kadai, add broken green gram and saute it until the color become slight brown. Transfer it to a bowl and keep it aside to become cool.
• Add rice flour and roast it for few minutes. Keep it aside to become cool.
• Grind the cardamom.
• Take a big bowl, add rice flour, grated coconut, sugar, cardamom powder, broken green gram and mix it well.
• Make a dough by adding water little by little with the mixed flour. And It should be similar to poori 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 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 sugar as per your taste.
• Don't add more water because the sugar will melt during steam cook.