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Kara  Pidi Kozhukottai is an aromatic, filling  and healthy dish ideal to serve for breakfast. The rice and lentil mixture is twice cooked to make a delicious dish. It is from Tamil cuisine and commonly prepared in Tamil Brahmin households.

Kozhukottai is a dish familiar to Tamilian cuisine. It is commonly made in  Tamilian households on a regular basis.  They are usually rice dumplings  with or without a filling. It may be sweet or savoury, thus different kinds of kozhukottai are prepared.

Since I started my blogging, the love to know about different cuisines is even more. Pidi Kozhukottai as I have read in many blogs makes use of only rice. I came across a recipe which made use of lentils too and liked it. Here is the  recipe which I tried recently, I hope you will try and enjoy it. I got this recipe from a book titled Tiffins:Memories and Recipes of Indian Cooking by Rukmini Srinivas

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Earlier, I have shared Ammini Kozhukottai recipe, it is tasty and I usually make it for dinner.

Coming to the recipe, it is not a quick one. It involves three steps. At first, we grind the ingredients and roast them. Next it is cooked with a seasoning like upma.  Once it is ready and cooled, it is then shaped into dumplings and steamed. But, it is healthy and quite easy to make.  I liked as it involved additional mere steaming  for just ten more minutes. Over to the Kara Pidi Kozhukottai Recipe

Kara Pidi Kozhukottai Recipe

Ingredients:

To grind:

• 1 cup raw rice
• 1/4 cup tur dal
• 1 tablespoon chana dal
• 2 dry chillies
• 10 peppercorns

Other ingredients:

• 2 tablespoon oil
• 1/2 teaspoon mustard
• 1 teaspoon bengal gram
• 2 green chillies
• few curry leaves
• 1/4 teaspoon asafoetida
• 2 cup water
• 1/2 cup fresh coconut
• 1/4 cup grated carrot
• 1/4 cup green peas
• 1 bunch fenugreek
• salt

Method :

1. Dry grind the ingredients under, “To Grind” to a coarse semolina like texture.
2. Put the mixture in a pan and dry roast for two minutes. Keep it aside.
3. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. As they splutter, put bengal, asafietida and curry leaves. Throw in the green chilly too. As they turn golden, put water and salt to it.
4. As the water begins to boil, throw in coconut, vegetables and greens.
5. Bring to a boil, now slowly add one cup of the ground mix to it. Keep stirring as no lumps should be formed.
6. Cook until water is absorbed.
7. Allow it to cool.
8. Make elongated shaped dumplings with the mixture,
9. Take a steamer or idli cooker. Put water in the beneth.
10. Grease a bowl, put the dumplings into it.
11. Put the perforated lid and keep the bowl with dumplings over it.
12. Let cook for eight minutes, check with a tooth pick
13. Once it is done, serve hot.

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Kara Pidi Kozhukottai

Kara Pidi Kozhukottai is a healthy, and tasty recipe from Tamil cuisine. It is ideal to serve for breakfast.

Course Breakfast

Cuisine Indian, Tamilnadu

Keyword healthy recipes, kara pidi kozhukottai, savoury snacks for diwali, steamed recipes

Author Jayashree

Ingredients

To grind:

• 1 cup raw rice
• 1/4 cup tur dal
• 1 tablespoon chana dal
• 2 dry chillies
• 10 peppercorns

Other ingredients:

• 2 tablespoon oil
• 1/2 teaspoon mustard
• 1 teaspoon bengal gram
• 2 green chillies
• few curry leaves
• 1/4 teaspoon asafoetida
• 2 cup water
• 1/2 cup fresh coconut
• 1/4 cup grated carrot
• 1/4 cup green peas
• 1 bunch fenugreek
• salt

Instructions

• Dry grind the ingredients under, “To Grind” to a coarse semolina like texture.
• Put the mixture in a pan and dry roast for two minutes. Keep it aside.
• Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. As they splutter, put bengal, asafietida and curry leaves. Throw in the green chilly too. As they turn golden, put water and salt to it.
• As the water begins to boil, throw in coconut, vegetables and greens.
• Bring to a boil, now slowly add one cup of the ground mix to it. Keep stirring as no lumps should be formed.
• Cook until water is absorbed.
• Allow it to cool.
• Make elongated shaped dumplings with the mixture,
• Take a steamer or idli cooker. Put water in the beneth.
• Grease a bowl, put the dumplings into it.
• Put the perforated lid and keep the bowl with dumplings over it.
• Let cook for eight minutes, check with a tooth pick
• Once it is done, serve hot.

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