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.

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.

Aval(poha) Kozhukattai Recipe

Ingredients :

White or Red Aval(poha) - 1 cup
Water - 1 cup
Grated coconut - 2 tsp
Salt - as required

For the seasoning :

Oil - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Urad dal - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves - few
Dry red chilly - 1 (cut into small pieces)

Preparation :

• Grind the aval coarsely and keep it aside.
• Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds when its popup then add urad dal, curry leaves and dry red chilies.
• Now add 1 cup of water and boil it.
• Once it starts boiling then add aval mixture, required salt and mix it well in low flame.
• Cook the aval until it absorbs all water.
• Then add grated coconut and switch off the flame.
• Keep it aside for few minutes to become cool. (not very much)
• Make a cylinder shape balls by pressing it with your fingers.
• Arrange it in a greased idli plate and steam cook it for 5 to 7 minutes.
• Serve it hot with any chutney.

Uppu Kozhukattai Recipe / Kara Kozhukattai Recipe

Uppu Kozhukattai Recipe / Kara Kozhukattai Recipe

Ingredients :

Rice Flour / Idiyappam Flour - 1 Cup

Ghee or Oil - as needed

Salt - as needed

Hot water - as needed

To Temper

Ghee or  Oil - 1 tsp

Mustard seed - 1 tsp

Curry leaves - few

Coriander leaves - few (Finely Chopped)

Green Chilly - 2 (Finely Chopped)

Urad dal / Uluntha paruppu - 1 tsp

Channa dal / Kadalai Paruppu - 1 tsp

Preparation :

• Take a bowl, add rice flour, salt and oil.
• Then add hot water little by little and make a soft dough like a chappathi dough.
• Heat oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds when its popup, add currey leaves, urad dal, Channa dal, green chilly, coriander leaves and fry till golden brown.
• Add the tempered ingredients to the rice dough.
• Using mixed rice dough, Make a lemon sized ball .
• Place the Kozhukattai one by one in the greased idly cooker.
• Steam cook for 8-10 minutes.

Ganesh Chaturthi Kozhukattai / Vinayagar Chaturthi Kozhukattai / Stuffed Kozhukattai

Ganesh Chaturthi Kozhukattai / Vinayagar Chaturthi Kozhukattai / Stuffed Kozhukattai

Ingredients:

Rice Flour / Idiyappam Flour - 3/4 cup

Salt - a pinch

water - to enough

For Stuffing :

Kadalai Paruppu / Channa Dal - 1/2 cup

Jaggery/Manda vellam - 1/3 cup

Coconut Scrapped - 1/2 cup

Cardamom / yelakkai Powder - a pinch

Preparation :

• Take bowl, add rice flour, salt and add 1 cup of hot water and knead it well like chappathi dough.
• Wash the channa dal throughly and soak it in water for 2 hours.
• In a pressure Cooker, Cook Channa dal / Kadalai Paruppu with 3 whistles.
• Drain out the water from Channa dal. Keep it aside to become cool.
• Grain Channa dal / Kadalai Paruppu, jaggery  and cardamom.
• If you feel the mixture is watery, don't worry.
• Heat kadai and add Scrapped coconut and fry it 2 min in low flame, then add Grained(Channal Dal) paste and saute it for 3 min.
• Now Poornam is ready.
• Make a small amount prepared rice flour dough.
• Now stuff the channa dal(grained paste) mixture inside the dough.
• Place the Kozhukattai one by one in the greased idly cooker.
• Steam cook for 8-10 minutes.
• Now delicious ganesh chaturthi Kozhukattai is ready.