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    Home » Recipes » Ganesh chaturthi recipes

    Elai kozhukattai recipe, jackfruit elai kozhukattai

    August 24, 2017 by Raks Anand 8 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    Elai kozhukattai recipe with flavourful, delicious jackfruit sweet stuffing. Step by step pictures for easy understanding.

    elai kozhukattai recipe

    Jackfruit/ palapazham cooked with jaggery and coconut to make a stuffing to prepare elai kozhukattai.

    Check out my kozhukattai recipes list and also Vinayagar chaturthi festival guide.

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    For past 3 years I have this elai kozhuakttai in my to try list, after I got the idea from a picture.

    I believe the picture was ela adai, kerala version. Was bit hesitant to try as I thought it would be difficult or something complicated.

    I don’t know, even after making elai vadam, why I was that much hesitant to make ela adai.

    elai kozhukattai
    Elai kozhukattai

    But for this Ganesh chaturthi, I thought I should make this elai kozhukattai version at least.

    I was so determined I should use jackfruit sweet stuffing, because of that picture tempted me, which is still in my mind.

    Guess the ela adai version had more thin outer cover as it uses batter. I made my kozhukattai too thinnest possible.

    Thanks to the idiyappam brand I use, it gives so soft and smooth outer layer. Loved it so much, after my jackfruit payasam.

    I am so in love with jackfruit and jaggery sweet. Have a chakka varatti halwa recipe too, which I should try.

    Meanwhile, do try this jackfruit stuffed elai kozhukattai, sure you will impress everyone, enjoy yourself as well.

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    elai kozhukattai
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    Elai kozhukattai recipe

    Elai kozhukattai recipe with flavourful, delicious jackfruit sweet stuffing. Step by step pictures for easy understanding.
    Course Snack
    Cuisine Indian
    Prep Time 20 minutes
    Cook Time 25 minutes
    Servings 16

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    • Idli steamer
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • 8 Jack fruit pala sulai
    • ½ cup Jaggery powder heaped
    • ½ cup Coconut grated
    • 2 Cardamom
    • 1 teaspoon Ghee

    Dough layer

    • 1 cup Rice flour I used Idiyappam flour
    • 1 teaspoon Sesame oil
    • Salt – as needed
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    Instructions

    Prepare stuffing

    • Prepare the jackfruit stuffing firstly. Separate the seed and thin skin around it. Roughly tear, divide into 2-3.
    • Pressure cook for 3 whistles in medium flame, in a vessel with a tablespoon of water sprinkled. Cool down and grind to a paste.
    • Heat a pan with ground paste, jaggery, grated coconut and cardamom.
    • Stir until it is thick. Add a teaspoon of ghee at the end. I let the stuffing to be loose in texture.

    Make dough

    • For dough, boil water well. In a mixing bowl, take rice flour. Add sesame oil, required salt to it. Add boiling hot water to the flour and mix with a ladle.
    • Once warm enough to handle, grease you hands and knead to a smooth dough. Divide into equal lemon sized balls.

    Shape

    • To make elai kozhukattai, cut the banana leaf into small sheets. Refer notes for important tips.
    • Grease with oil. Place rolled dough ball and flatten to thin round. Place 2 teaspoon of prepared jackfruit stuffing.
    • Fold in such a way that the other part exactly covers the stuffing. Gently press the leaf towards the outer edge to seal.

    Steaming

    • Place in idli pot plate/ steamer and steam cook for 8 minutes.
    • Once done, you can take out the kozhukattai immediately. It comes off easily. You can re use the leafs to finish the dough.

    Notes

    • Do not add more water while pressure cooking jackfruit.
    • I used jaggery powder. So make sure to powder the jaggery well before measuring for precise outcome.
    • I used little more than ½ cup and felt it was too sweet, so reduced in my recipe.
    • For using banana leaf without tearing while folding, wilt the leaf slightly over direct flame so that it is easy to handle.
    • You can steam more than 4 in a idli plate by placing accordingly.
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    Stepwise photos

    1. Prepare the jackfruit stuffing firstly. Separate the seed and thin skin around it to begin with. After that, roughly tear, divide into 2-3. Then pressure cook for 3 whistles in medium flame, in a vessel with a tablespoon of water sprinkled.

    pressure cook

    2. Once cooled down, grind to a paste.

    grind

    3. Heat a pan in medium heat initially, with the ground paste, jaggery, grated coconut and cardamom.

    heat ingredients

    4. Stir until it is thick. Add a teaspoon of ghee finally. I let the stuffing to be loose in texture.

    loose texute

    5. For dough, boil water well. In a mixing bowl, take rice flour. Add sesame oil, required salt to it. Add boiling hot water to the flour and mix with a ladle.

    kozhukattai dough

    6. Once warm enough to handle, grease you hands and knead to a smooth dough. Then divide into equal small lemon sized balls.

    kozhukattai dough

    7. To make elai kozhukattai, cut the banana leaf into small sheets. Refer notes for important tips. Grease with oil. Place rolled dough ball and flatten to thin round. Place 2 teaspoon of prepared jackfruit stuffing.

    spread

    8. Then fold in such a way that the other part exactly covers the stuffing. Gently press the leaf towards the outer edge to seal. After that, place in idli pot plate/ steamer and steam cook for 8 minutes.

    steam

    Once done, you can take out the kozhukattai immediately. It comes off easily. You can re use the leafs to finish the dough.

    done

    Enjoy the soft, flavourful kozhukattais hot or at room temperature. It tastes heavenly.

    jackfruit-kozhukattai
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    Comments

    1. chan

      August 25, 2017 at 12:54 am

      Hi Raji,email kolukkattai is super.can u post the recipes for thean mittai(without any artificial color)and paravai koodu(birds nest recipe using potato and green peas)Thank you.Sugapriya

      Reply
    2. chan

      August 25, 2017 at 12:55 am

      Sorry.elai kolukkattai

      Reply
    3. Raks anand

      August 25, 2017 at 12:59 am

      Sure, thank you 🙂

      Reply
    4. Sugandhi

      August 30, 2017 at 6:34 am

      we make the same by making the batter of rice and spreading it on leaf like dosa

      Reply
    5. Karunakaran M

      August 30, 2017 at 6:35 am

      Wow, will you mention the brand name of rice flour You use to make Kozhukattai. Usual method of preparing the flour from scratch is too tedius

      Reply
    6. Raks anand

      August 30, 2017 at 6:42 am

      I used Baba's idiyappam flour we get here in Singapore.

      Reply
    7. Uma

      July 18, 2020 at 10:41 am

      Very tasty raji ..thank u

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        July 19, 2020 at 8:06 am

        Thank you 🙂

        Reply

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