PAL KOZHUKATTAI

Pal kozhukattai is delicious dish from Tamilnadu... Pal kozhukattai is a rice dumplings cooked in coconut milk with sugar/jaggary.. My mother used to make it with sugar.. its so yummy and those dumpling just melt in mouth ...

There are many ways to make this pal kozhukattai ..this is very simplest method..

INGREDIENTS:

• Rice flour - 1 cup
• Grated coconut /coconut milk - 1/2 cup
• Sugar - 1/4 cup
• Ilachi powder - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Gingely oil - 1 tsp
• Water as required
• Milk - 1 cup

PROCEDURE:

• In a sauce pan, heat the water until it boils and bubbles .. add gingely oil to water
• In a bowl add rice flour and salt and mix well 
• Now add this boiling water little by little to rice flour and mix using wooden ladle its forms crumple as shown as pic... this flour now half cooked

• Grease your fingers make them into soft dough

• Then make them into small balls and steam them in idli cooker

• Grind the coconut into smooth thin paste.. or extract thin coconut milk

• In a sauce pan ,add this coconut thin paste and milk and little water let it boil in very low flame
• Add sugar and ilachi powder.
• Add steamed rice balls in this coconut  milk .. let it cook for few more mins.
• Yummy pal kozhukattai ready