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Modak / Sweet Kolukattai / Poorna Kolukattai


Ingredients:

Home Made Rice Flour - 1 cup
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Bengal Gram - 1 cup
Jaggery - 1 cup
Cardamom - 5










Cooking Instructions:

Modak / Kolukattai is the main offering / neivedyam offered to Lord Ganesha during the festival of Vinayaka Chaturthi / Ganesh Chaturthi. Vinayaka Chaturthi is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Ganesha. To know more about, Vinayaka Cahturthi, click HERE.

we can use ready made rice flour available in stores also but it will be little hard when cooked. This is the reason for why we are using home made rice flour.

To prepare rice flour at home. soak the rice in water for about 30 minutes and drain the water completely. Let the rice to dry under sun well. Grind the rice to a fine powder without adding water.



Grind the cardamom to a fine powder. Grind jaggery to fine powder. Cook the bengal gram in a pressure cooker for 3 whistles in high flame and drain the excess water. Now grind the cooked dhal little coarse without adding water and now add jaggery powder and cardamom powder to it and grind once to mix them together. Filling / poornam is ready.

Take a cup of rice flour and add salt to it and add lukewarm water to it and form a dough. the dough should not be too hard or too soft. Prepare it to the consistency of chapati dough.



Grease your hands with melted ghee or oil. Take a big lemon size rice flour dough and flatten them with ur hands to a little circle. Now place a gooseberry sized ball of filling in the center of the circle and seal all the edges of the rice flour dough. kolukattai is ready to cook.

Place all the kolukattais in the idli cooker and steam it for about 5 to 10 minutes.
Sweet Kolukattai is ready to serve.

Archy has passed me 'UR a Sweet Heart Awards' and 'Circle of Friends' award to me and am so happy to be your friend Archy and thanks a lot!



Sanghi has passed me a galore of awards and thanks a lot for reminding me sanghi!











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gtyuk said…
kazhukkattai looks yummmm; congratulations for the awards!
Finla said…
I love this sweet and yours looks just like my moms.
Trupti said…
Modak looks very delicious Sri.
Congratulations on all awards. New template looks very nice
Anonymous said…
we usually make this,but less bengal gram..;looks delicious.
Sara said…
These sure look delicious! yum!
Kozhukattai looks tempting.
Deepa Hari said…
Like the new look of the blog...looks great....Yummy kozhukattai.
Shama Nagarajan said…
lovely kolukkatai..congrats....please collect urs from me too...
Lavanya said…
they looks like kajjikayalu.but those will be fried in oil i guess..but yours is healthy by cooking in idli cooker..nice n yummy!!
Pooja said…
Looking yum...You have some more awards waiting at my blog...Please pick them...
Uj said…
Love modaks. Have never tried making them at home. :)
Chutneytales said…
Kozhukattais are my fav and i can have them in any numbers :)
Now i'm in need of kozhukatais after seeing ur post :)
Sanghi said…
Wow Sri..! Mouth-watering looking at the kolukattai...! Presentation is marvellous! Template is a class dear! Keep rocking :)
Unknown said…
looks awesome and delicious!!
Smitha said…
I miss home when I see such items. I love kolukattai, but never tried to make them myself. You seem to be going strong with your blog too. Nice:)
smitha
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Anonymous said…
kollukattai is very good. what shape it is? its sweet or salt...
hey perfectly shaped kozhakattais.. i have never made perfect ones like u. shud try sometime as i love them.
Priya Sriram said…
I love the kolukkatai Sri! Please share some with me too... I'm too lazy to prepare! lol!!

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