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.
✨ 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
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 with kadalai paruppu pooranam
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
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. 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
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
🎥 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.
Other recipes
Latest updated posts
Kadalai paruppu pooranam
Ammini kozhukattai
elai kozhukattai recipe, Jackfruit sweet koazhukattai
Pachai payaru sweet kozhukattai recipe
Rajma modakam recipe
Sweet potato modak
Thengai poli recipe
Corn kozhukattai
Peanut kozhukattai
Recipe card
Ganesh chaturthi recipes – Sweet kozhukattai recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup Rice flour Ready made idiyappam flour
- 1 tsp Sesame oil
- Water – As needed
- Salt – As needed
FOR COCONUT POORANAM
- 1 cup Coconut – 1 cup
- ¾ cup Jaggery
- 2 Cardamom
Instructions
- For the dough, bring water to boil with a tsp 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 tbsp 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.
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.
Mouthwatering collection:-)
Ur making easier way of cooking for us. Superb collection
Wow… Solid foods collection, awesome post, Thanks for sharing.
Excellent..inspiring….super ponga
Tried "Sweet Pidi Kozhukattai" and " Ammini Kozhukattai" today on the account of Vinayaka Chaturthi …and loved it.
Thanks for uploading such a great recipe
Made modagam following you'd video and it came out really well. First time making it! Thank you very much.
Thank you 🙂
Hi, thank u so much for ur recepies. Pls create an app with offline menus so that we will be really happy to use it. It will be ever more convenient. Thank u.
Hi,
Awesome collection.
Thank you so much for making our lives easier..
Just a scroll down for traditional innovative recipes..
Good luck!!!!