Paal kozhukattai recipe
Paal kozhukattai with coconut milk and sugar is a treat for your taste buds as well as eyes. Tiny rice balls cooked in coconut milk and cardamom flavor.
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
For kozhukattai
- 1 cup Rice flour I used Idiyappam flour
- ½ cup milk
- 1 cup Water
- 1 teaspoon Ghee
- 1 teaspoon Sesame oil
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
Others
- ½ cup Coconut milk Thick extract (pure coconut milk without water)
- 2 cups Thin coconut milk Second extract, dilute to make 2 cups
- ¾ cup Sugar
- 1 Cardamom powdered
- 1 teaspoon Sesame oil
Instructions
Make kozhukattai
- Take a non stick pan and mix milk, 1 cup water, ghee and the rice flour (add a pinch of salt if you are using rice flour. I used store bought idiyappam flour and it had salt in it, so didn't add).
- Heat this in medium flame with constant stirring until the water evaporates and forms a dough.
- Add 1 or 2 teaspoon sesame oil now and knead the dough.
- The dough should have got cooked almost and this can be confirmed if the dough is non-sticky. (Don't cook in high flame, cook in medium flame as this will make sure that the dough gets cooked)
- Keep covered and take your convenient portions little by little.
- Make tiny balls of desired size. I made it in size of seedai.
Make paal kozhukattai
- First start heating thin coconut milk.
- Add the rolled tiny rice balls in two parts. Firstly half of the kozhukattai and wait until the milk boils again and again add the remaining kozhukattai.
- Boil in medium flame for 3 minutes or until the kozhukattai float on the top. By now the milk would have gone thicker.
- Add cardamom powder, sugar and mix well until sugar gets dissolved.
- Lower the flame and add thick coconut milk and mix well.
- Heat in low flame for a minute and switch off flame.
Video
Notes
- I have used sugar, you can replace with jaggery.
- Extracting fresh coconut milk. - Grind 1 cup of grated coconut (maximum 2 tbsp lukewarm water). Squeeze and collect first milk. Use this in the last step.
- Again place the squeezed grated coconut in mixer and add ½ cup to ¾ lukewarm water, grind and extract the thin milk. use this in step 5. Adjust quantity as mentioned. That is the thin coconut milk should be 2 cups. So add water accordingly.
- You can use coconut milk cream or our dairy milk too.
- Do not boil in high flame after you add the thick milk as there are chances of curdling. But since the rice flour is in there, it will prevent curdling.
- Increase or decrease the sugar amount as per your taste.
- I have used unrefined sugar in the updated video.