Kozhukattai’s are nothing but steamed rice flour balls. There are many varieties of these kozhukattai’s and also they come in different taste. Here I have made kozhukattai with Bengal gram/ gram and jaggery stuffing, which is prepared mainly as an offering Lord Vinayaga on Vinayagar Chaturthi.

Vellai kolukattai / Sweet rice flour Dumplings / Kozhukattai

Ingredients:

• Rice flour – 1 cup
• Water – 1 ¼ cup
• Salt – a pinch
• Ghee – 2 tsp
• Bengal gram / Gram / Kadala paruppu – 1 cup
• Jaggery – ½ cup
• Cardamom powder – 1 tsp

Rice flour stirred with water

Rice flour flattened for Stuffing

Gram ladoo dumped in rice flour

Kozhukattai shaped

Vellai kolukattai / Sweet rice flour Dumplings / Kozhukattai

Preparation:

• First moving for the filling: Boil the Bengal gram / gram, it should be 80% cooked.
• Crush the jaggery and mix the jaggery with Bengal gram and mash them or pulse in the mixie.
• Make them into ball and keep aside.
• Boil water in a kadai and switch off the flame.
• Put the flour little by little and start mixing them with a pinch of salt. Be sure that no lumps are formed.
• Roll them into small balls and flattened them a little.
• Keep the gram balls in the middle and fold the flour to cover the ball and make it to cone shape.
• Now steam those cone shape kozhukattai in a steamer for about 10 -15 mins.

Serve hot or warm.