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    Home » Recipes » Ganesh chaturthi recipes

    Ganesh Chaturthi recipes, Vinayagar Chaturthi recipes

    August 26, 2014 by Raks Anand 9 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    Ganesh chaturthi recipes collection, to decide your menu on the special festival day. Best of all, the respective recipes are with step by step photos, videos for easy understanding.

    Ganesh chaturthi wishes, ganesh chaturthi recipes
    Vinayagar chaturthi recipes

    Check out my other collections in my website.

    Jump to:
    • ✨ About festival
    • 📝 Must try recipes
    • 🎥 Videos
    • Other recipes
    • Latest updated posts
    • Recipe card

    ✨ About festival

    One of the widely celebrated Hindu festivals across India is Ganesh chaturthi. In Tamil Nadu, it's commonly called vinayagal chaturthi. Or in other words, pillayar sadhurthi as we call at our home.

    Though it is celebrated by many, each region, each house hold has it's own tradition, recipes we follow. So I have shared many recipes over these years and have compiled all of them in one place.

    Please refer this page to see how to prepare homemade rice flour for making Kozhukattai, if you wish to prepare from scratch. Also, you can make with store bought rice flour or Idiyappam flour too for easy finish! Wishing you all a Happy Ganesh Chaturthi/ Vinayagar Chathurthi 🙂

    📝 Must try recipes

    1. Sweet kozhukattai

    To begin with, our traditional way of making kozhukattai at home is always chana dal sweet pooranam filling that my mom makes. Similarly at my in-laws place it is the same method. So I too follow the tradition of making a sweet stuffing made with kadalai paruppu, coconut and jaggery.

    Kozhukattai recipe

    4.80 from 10 votes
    Kozhukattai recipe with kadalai paruppu pooranam - Quick video post with detailed step by step pictures for Vinayagar chaturthi festival.
    30 mins
    sweet stuffing

    2. Ulundu kozhukattai (Savory urad dal stuffing)

    Other than sweet kozhukattai it is savory dish ulundu kozhukattai that makes an important appearance in the menu. So check out the recipe below in the detailed post.

    Ulundu Kozhukattai

    5 from 2 votes
    Ulundu Kozhukattai recipe with detailed step by step pictures, video. Uppu Kozhukattai recipe is on of the main dish in Ganesh chaturthi, Vinayagar chathurthi celebration.
    30 mins
    Ulundu-kozhukattai-uppu-kozhukattai-recipe

    3. Ellu kozhukattai

    Every year, it's a tradition to make 3 varieties of kozhukattai for offering to God as well as have it as prasadam. Especially, the third one which we make in smaller batch is ellu kozhukattai with a sweet stuffing made out of sesame seeds, jaggery and coconut.

    Ellu kozhukattai recipe

    4.67 from 3 votes
    Ellu kozhukattai recipe with step by step pictures - Vinayagar chaturthi recipes- Mothagam with Sesame, jaggery and coconut stuffed modaks, perfect for the celebration!  
    15 mins

    4. Sundal

    Following kozhukattai, sundal is one the most common dish prepared specially on the festival day among almost all households in Tamil Nadu. Here's a version of sundal recipe with white chana (Kabuli chana)

    Chana sundal recipe

    4.75 from 4 votes
    Chana sundal prepared with kabuli chana or white chana is a healthy dish as well as prepared during Ganesh chaturthi festival.
    20 mins
    chana-sundal-recipe

    5. Kondakadalai sundal

    Though these days white chana is used, I have been grown up seeing amma make brown chana/ kala chana or karuppu kondakadalai sundal. It has an amazing texture and addictive to eat.

    Kondakadalai sundal | Kondakadalai masala sundal

    5 from 1 vote
    Kondakadalai sundal with special masala powder to make it double flavorful. This can be also prepared without sundal podi.
    20 mins
    kala-chana-sundal

    🎥 Videos

    Are videos more your thing? Especially, for such festivals and traditional recipes, I like to watch the tips, tricks, techniques in video. I have a playlist in Youtube with all the video recipes, so go and watch.

    Check out my youtube for Ganesh chaturthi recipe videos.

    Check out my guide to Vinayaka chaturthi in this detailed post.

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    Kadalai paruppu pooranam

    4.60 from 5 votes
    Kadalai paruppu pooranam recipe - sweet pooranam recipe - Delicious stuffing for mothagam with chana dal, jaggery and coconut.
    20 mins
    kadalai paruppu poornam

    Ammini kozhukattai

    5 from 2 votes
    Ammini kozhukattai recipe with moong dal, prepared with rice flour. Mild spiced, flavourful ammini kozhukattai with step by step pictures.
    20 mins
    ammini kozhukattai

    Elai kozhukattai recipe

    5 from 1 vote
    Elai kozhukattai recipe with flavourful, delicious jackfruit sweet stuffing. Step by step pictures for easy understanding.
    25 mins
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    Pachai payaru sweet kozhukattai recipe

    4 from 2 votes
    Pachai payaru sweet kozhukattai recipe with full video and step by step pictures. A flavourful and healthy kozhukattai recipe for the vinayagar chathurti.
    25 mins
    pachai-payaru-kozhukattai

    Rajma modakam recipe

    5 from 3 votes
    Rajma modakam, made with sweet rajma poornam stuffing. Just basic ingredients, yet make it special with rajma stuffing rather the dal stuffing we usually make. 
    20 mins
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    Sweet potato modak

    5 from 1 vote
    Sweet potato modak colourful kozhukattai, made by using purple sweet potato and yellow ones for outer dough and a simple coconut sweet stuffing.
    30 mins
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    Thengai poli recipe

    5 from 1 vote
    Thengai poli, coconut poli, I would say thengai poli is the most yummiest poli of all I have tried. Learn to make delicious thengai poli in this detailed post.
    20 mins
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    Corn kozhukattai

    4 from 1 vote
    Corn kozhukattai (spicy version) with corn made as pooranam with spices and coconut. Ganesh Chaturthi special full video post.
    20 mins
    corn-kara-kozhukarrai

    Peanut kozhukattai

    5 from 3 votes
    Peanut kozhukattai with simple sweet verkadalai stuffing that you can prepare without any cooking. Quick video Ganesh chaturthi recipe.
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    Ganesh chaturthi recipes - Sweet kozhukattai recipe

    Ganesh chaturthi special sweet kozhukattai recipe with just coconut, jaggery and cardamom as main ingredients along with rice flour.
    Course Snack
    Cuisine Indian
    Prep Time 25 minutes
    Cook Time 20 minutes
    Servings 12 Kozhukattai
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • ½ cup Rice flour Ready made idiyappam flour
    • 1 teaspoon Sesame oil
    • Water – As needed
    • Salt – As needed

    FOR COCONUT POORANAM

    • 1 cup Coconut – 1 cup
    • ¾ cup Jaggery
    • 2 Cardamom
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    Instructions

    • For the dough, bring water to boil with a teaspoon of sesame oil and let it boil for a minute.
    • Add it to the flour with salt and mix well. Use a spatula for mixing. You may need lots of water. So make sure you boil enough.
    • After it becomes warm, knead to a smooth dough and keep covered. You can make equal sized balls and keep covered.
    • For the thenga pooranam, place grated coconut jaggery and cardamom powder in a pan, with 2 tablespoon of water.
    • Mix in medium flame for 5 minutes, when it starts leaving the sides of pan, switch off the flame.
    • Make small cups out of the dough, Fill with the coconut pooranam.
    • Repeat and finish the kozhukattais and keep covered until steaming.
    • Boil water in steamer and arrange the modaks in the steaming plate and cook for 5 mintues. Or until they are cooked.

    Video

    Notes

    • You can reduce jaggery quantity as needed to suit your taste.
    • I used little less jaggery than mentioned as I dont like it too sweet.
    • To get the outer layer soft, its important to boil water well for making the dough.
    • Dough should be almost cooked with the hot water so that you get non sticky pliable dough.
    • If the dough is not cooked well, you may not be able to make the cups properly and will break while making.
    • To check if the kozhukattais are done, it will be shiny and changed in colour.
    • Do not over cook , it may give you rubbery and broken kozhukattais.
    • If you mix the stufiing in high flame or for more time than needed, then it may turn hard or brittle.
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    Comments

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      August 27, 2014 at 3:26 am

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      August 27, 2014 at 8:00 pm

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    5. Vidya Bharadwaj

      August 30, 2014 at 1:56 pm

      Tried "Sweet Pidi Kozhukattai" and " Ammini Kozhukattai" today on the account of Vinayaka Chaturthi ...and loved it.
      Thanks for uploading such a great recipe

      Reply
    6. Poornima Krishnan

      August 30, 2014 at 1:56 pm

      Made modagam following you'd video and it came out really well. First time making it! Thank you very much.

      Reply
    7. Raks anand

      August 29, 2016 at 9:24 am

      Thank you 🙂

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