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Vishu Kanji recipe | Vishu Special recipes | palakkad vishu kanji with step by step photos and video recipe. simple, comforting and very traditional dish of kerala made on the very special occasion of Vishu

Vishu as i have elaborately written about is a popular festival of Kerala consisdered as a malayalam new year and celebrated by all Hindu malayalees world wide.

Vishu Kanji recipe vishu special recipes

This Vishu Kanji is simple made with the kerala raw rice/ unakkalari generally. But if you do not have it, Go with the normal white raw rice. traditionally it is made with unakkalari which is raw rice of the rose matta.

It is soaked for an hour before cooking and fresh coconut milk is only used in this recipe. This can be accompanied by coconut chammanthi / vellarika curry / pickle. This has a sweet version where instead of salt, vellam(jaggery) is added.

Vishu Kanji recipe vishu special recipes

Vishu Kanji recipe

Vishu kanji recipe

Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time1 hour 40 minutes
Total Time1 hour 45 minutes
Servings: 4 people

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup unakkalari/ any raw rice
  • 1/4 cup matta rice
  • 4 cups third and fourth extract coconut milk
  • 2 cups second extract coconut milk
  • 1 cup first extract coconut milk
  • salt to taste

to cook mochai

  • 1/8 cup puliavarakkai/ mochai/ mocha kotta
  • 1 cup thin coconut milk (4th extract)
  • 1 cup water

Instructions

  • roast the mochai/ puliavarakkai in cooker until spots appear. Add a cup of thin coconut milk and 1 cup water.
  • Pressure cook for 3-4 whistles. 
  • Wash and add raw rice and matta rice to a thick bottomed vessel. Add third and fourth extract coconut milk. Mix well. let it cook in medium heat until all the coconut milk is absorbed. 
  • when is rice is half cooked, add second extract coconut milk and cooked mochai. Mix well and cook till soft and mashable. 
  • Lastly, add first extract coconut milk, salt. mix well and just heat it up. serve it fresh with chammanthi/pickle. 

Video


How to make palakkad vishu kanji recipe

1.In a bowl, take raw rice(unakkalari/any variety raw rice) and matta rice(or normal sona masoori) . Wash them well.

Vishu Kanji recipe vishu special recipes

To pressure cook the raw rice and matta rice instead of cooking it in a pot, wash and take the rice together in a cooker. For 1/2 cup rice in total, add 4 cups third and fourth extract coconut milk. pressure cook for 3-4 whistles. Open and follow the same process from step 6

2. Take them in a thick bottomed vessel. Add third and fourth extract coconut milk to it.

Vishu Kanji recipe vishu special recipes

3. While it is getting cooked. In a cooker, roast the mocha/ puli varakka until you find spots on it.

Vishu Kanji recipe vishu special recipes

4. Take third extract coconut milk + water in the cooker. Mix well and let it pressure cook for 3-4 whistles.

Vishu Kanji recipe vishu special recipes

5. When all the coconut milk is absorbed and rice will be half cooked. Takes 30-40 minutes in medium heat. Stir in between often so that rice does not stick to the bottom.

Vishu Kanji recipe vishu special recipes

6. Pour in second extract coconut milk and the cooked mochai along with the water.

Vishu Kanji recipe vishu special recipes

7. Mix well and cook until rice is soft and mashable. Takes 10 more minutes.

Vishu Kanji recipe vishu special recipes

8. Lastly add thick/ first extract coconut milk, salt and mix well. Let it come to a boil and then put off.

Vishu Kanji recipe vishu special recipes

9. Serve the kanji fresh with chammanthi.

Vishu Kanji recipe vishu special recipes
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