Kara Pidi Kozhukattai Recipe
Kozhukattai made with raw rice from scratch
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Ingredients
- 1.5 cups raw rice
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 1/4 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp chana dal
- 3/4 tsp urad dal split
- 2 red chillies - broken
- 1 spring curry leaves - chopped
- 1 medium onion or few small onions - chopped
- 3 tbsp coconut bits
- salt - to taste
Instructions
- Wash and soak the raw rice overnight or at least for 3-4 hours.
- Strain all the water and grind it a coarse paste with salt and keep it ready.
- Heat oil, splutter mustard seeds, urad dal, chana dal, red chilli, and curry leaves and saute until brown.
- further, add onions, coconut bits, and salt. Once onions turn pink,
- Now pour the ground rice batter. While adding the batter, put the stove in simmer
- Keep stirring so that it does not form any lumps. stir until it comes out of the pan clean and keeps rolling.
- Put off the stove and transfer to a bowl. sprinkle water and make it to a dough.
- take small lemon sized balls and make 'pidis' pressing it with your four fingers towards the palm.
- steam it in idli pan/steamer for 15 minutes until firm.