Aval kozhukattai is an easy to prepare breakfast, easy to digest and light on tummy. very flavourful and tasty too. Step by step pictures recipe.
Sometimes we could not believe certain facts suddenly. Especially, if it is a sad news. I was in the same state when I came to know one of our blogger friend, Jayasree who blogged at Experiments in Kailas kitchen passed away from this world. She was one of few bloggers I know right from the days I started blogging.
She never failed to write comment on each post of mine, I too even if I miss few posts, I go back to the archive and make sure I write comment to her posts.
I have not interacted with her personally but I had a great respect towards her. Always admire her traditional recipes she had posted in her blog.
For few days I was feeling so bad and she is still in my memories and will be forever. And I took this opportunity to post one of her lovely post,when Lataji and few other fellow bloggers came up with the idea of posting tribute posts for her.
I tried one of her gems she had blogged here. This is a very healthy steamed snack/tiffin or even a breakfast or dinner. Very flavourful and easy to make and tastes awesome! Do try this out for your family and you will agree with me.
Aval kozhukattai stepwise
- Use thick variety of aval for best result. Powder the aval coarsely in a mixer. Use juice/inch option to carefully do this evenly.
- Heat a pan with oil and temper with the items given under "to temper" table.Add water, salt and bring to boil.
- Add the powdered aval and mix well. cook till all water gets absorbed and the mixture resembles upma. Will take 2 minutes approximately.
- Switch off the stove and add grated coconut and mix well and cool down.
- Grease an idli plate and make kozhukattai out of the aval mixture and steam it for 5 minutes.
Serve hot with any chutney or sambar. It tastes as such very nice as a snack. So you can enjoy it as tiffin with tea/coffee too.
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Aval kozhukattai recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups Aval/ Poha
- 2 cups Water
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 2 tablespoon coconut Grated
TO TEMPER
- 2 teaspoon Oil
- ½ teaspoon Mustard
- 1 teaspoon Urad dal
- 1 tablespoon Chana dal
- 1 Green Chilli
- 1 sprig Curry leaves
Instructions
- Use thick variety of aval for best result. Powder the aval coarsely in a mixer. Use juice/inch option to carefully do this evenly.
- Heat a pan with oil and temper with the items given under "to temper". Add water, salt and bring to boil.
- Add the powdered aval and mix well. cook till all water gets absorbed and the mixture resembles upma. Will take 2 minutes approximately.
- Switch off the stove and add grated coconut and mix well and cool down.
- Grease an idli plate and make kozhukattai out of the aval mixture and steam it for 5 minutes.
Notes
- Use coconut oil for tempering, it will be smelling great.
- Grease hands with oil when shaping the poha.
- if kozhukattai doesn't hold shape, sprinkle some rice flour and knead to try again.
Pavithra says
Looks so yumm and wonderful breakfast Raji. Even I too wanted to make a post for her, will do that after Nov 5th. Its really sad news 🙁 even though we have never met her personally.
Priya's Feast says
Its really a big lose to blogger world..Jayashree is a humble and friendly person..Nice click on aval kozhukattai,its my fav one.
lata raja says
Those are few touching words you have coined there Raji.
We are all in this togetnher, and miss her badly, still cannot believe that fate can play such tricks.
I am pretty sure that these aval kozukkattais will feature in our breakfast menus often. They are healthy and filling at the same time.
Sharmilee! :) says
Such a nice gesture...And the kozhukattai looks yum, healthy and tasty too!
jeyashrisuresh says
nice write up. when ever i see her photo i admire the calmness in her face.Great tribute.Nice recipe and beautiful clicks.
Rinku Naveen says
That's so sweet of you Raji to remember a dear blogger friend. Even though we haven't met there is a bond and relationship between blogger friends - that has touched me.
Kozhukkattai looks yummy. Love such simple food.
Happy Cook / Finla says
Each time when i see her pic in a post for her and even still sometimes i see her pic in fb popping up i can't believe she is not there anymore. Even though we have not see her it is such a surprise how close we feel to each other in the blog world.
Sharmi says
sounds pretty nice and easy. will try this soon!
Kaveri says
It's really one of the most terrible things to have happened..Can't still believe that she's no more...Aval kozhukattais have turned out very well.
Gayathri NG says
Great tribute Raji...
Perfectly done n healthy recipe.
Kalyani's Platter says
Wow looks yummy and delicious .... And a great tribute to jayasree .....
Rekha shoban says
really very sad...kozhukattai looks yumm n perfect i do it with raw rice...nice click!
Prathibha says
Thats a very nice gesture started by our fellow bloggers...it was such a sad news,really hard to digest...nice kozhukattai
Now Serving says
We all miss her 🙁 Even I could not sleep for a couple of days after the news, luckily got distracted by Nthya's virtual bridal shower -
Aval kozhaktais look SO delicious - making it for dinner tonight -
Nice tribute Raji 🙂 hope you & your family had a wonderful Deepvali - cheers, priya
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S.Menaga says
வருத்தமான செய்தி,அவரின் ஆத்மா சாந்தியடைய பிரார்த்தனைகள்...கொழுக்கட்டை ரொம்ப நல்லாயிருக்கு!!
Raksha says
Felt sad after reading that she was a blogger. We all bloggers share a wonderful relationship with one another. May her soul rest in peace.
Ramya says
Thatz such a lovely gesture!! Our prayers r with her family
The kozhukattai looks soo yummy.I am going to try it this weekend:-)
Suja says
Great tribute dear..
perfectly made and delicious snack
Shanthi says
A tribute to her with perfectly made kozhukattias
uma shankar says
Nice thought and nice post!
Priya says
Lovely tribute to a great blogger, we miss her, aval kozhukattais looks healthy and filling..
Nila says
I am shocked to hear the news. I used to follow her blog regularly. Can somebody tell me what happened to her ?
Hamaree Rasoi says
I still can't get over the sudden demise of our blogger friend Jayasree. that was really nice gesture Raks....very healthy breakfast
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
Anonymous says
Aval Kozhukattai. They looked like the Undrallu so dear to Ganesh, but I find that they are made of atukulu ( rice flakes ) . Ilike atukulu, maramaralu, ( puffed rice), Futana dal , green chillies , salt, pieces of onion and green chillies mixed together with a dash of lemon juice to make adelicious chat. Need to try your Aval Kozhukattai.
Jay says
She was a wonderful person and Am a follower of her blog. May her soul rest in peace and God give her family courage and strength..!
Tasty Appetite
Aarthi says
I too felt really bad hearing that news..I am thinking to do a post for her too...And this looks really yummy and healthy...Thanks for the recipe Raji
Aarthi
Premalatha Aravindhan says
May her soul rest in peace. Lovely tribute Raji...
Awesome Clicks...
Sobha Shyam says
Great tribute dear..aval kozhukattai looks delicious..I tried out your eggless chocolate cake and it turned out great, I have posted it in my space today and linked to ur recipe as well !!
Uma says
This is really nice of you Raks. Though i dunno her, I thought to post some recipe from her too. BTW, you preparation is rocking as usual.
Anonymous says
A wonderful way of expressing one's thoughts! A simple and a neat dish,looks delicious raji 🙂
prema says
How sad to hear about Jayashree. I frequently visited her website and she posted the Appam recipe on my request. My heartfelt condolences to her family. She touched so many through her recipes.
RENU says
hi raks
i made this today.............thanks a lot....i love ur recipes.....n make them........i am a fan of ur recipes.........thanks again.
jayanthi ramesh
Sowmia says
Hi Raji,
I tried this aval kozhukattai as dinner on new year's eve. I chose this, as i had to prepare dinner, that should be simple, less time consuming and easy to prepare as i go home from office. This one exactly matched my requirements and i got good appreciations from my huby and in - laws too. Thanks again.
Shweta says
Hi Raks,
I tried out this recipe with a small change in the ingredients 🙂 instead of adding 2 cups of aval, i added a cup of aval and replaced the 2nd cup with oats 🙂 The output is a lot more healthier one and it tasted good too 🙂
Arvind Prabhu says
hi raji..i tried all of your paneer recipes it came out very well...thanks fr ur recipes..i hope u will post more...im d new one fr your blog thank u
ShobiGanesh says
hi raks ..i have been a gr8 fan behind ths recipe say for around 3 yrs from the cooking small booklets released by snehidhi book ..actually today i tried ur version to take a change from my normal one ..u have done it like the upma kozhukattai usually called as arisi kozhukkattai ...its just the poha , so i thnk adding it in boiled water and doing all those stuffs is even pretty time consuming ..here u go ! the actually very quicky one is u need to wash the poha (thick ones preferred ) ..then use those tempering wat ever u have said here and we can add ginger and hing for aroma , green chilli's finally ...add those in the poha , add coconut above it (say 1/4 cup) bcoz thats gonna realy make it delicious and soooper soft ...then give it a gud stir , if u want u can go ahead and add lemon juice too a small amt ...finally steam it for 10min or 5 min as u said ..thats enough ...OMG ! that wud be like heaven ..we can avoid the grinding part and the cooking part even ... but i liked the way u gave a pulse before making the dish , actually it gives a gud texture ...in the book they finished it by making coconut chutney ( just grind coconut , green chilli and split chick peas in small amt of yogurt ) and temper it as we do it normally for the chutney ...that was literally speaking HEAVEN RAKS ! try it sometime , if u havent .... iam sure u wud like that ! thanx !
Srividhya Rameshbabu says
Hi,recently am following ur blog from breakfast to dinner .trying one by one.all came out awesome.my family liked it very much and they praised me that I'm doing innovative and tasty.all credit goes to u raks.thanks..whomever ask now I'm asking them to refer ur blog only.that too brahmin receipes more.love it.great work
பவித்ரா says
Naval contains lot of dirt know. Without washing aval ?
Raks anand says
Ok, if you want you can wash it after powdering.
Deepa Rangarajan says
Yummy!! What if I have only the thin variety of Poha?
Raks Kitchen says
You can try