Ellu Kozhukattai has sweet stuffing prepared with sesame, peanut and jaggery. Sesame, peanuts are roasted, then powdered and mixed with jaggery to give a nice flavor and taste.
Sesame is known as Ellu in Tamil and as Til in Hindi. Peanuts (or groundnuts) are known as Nilakadalai or Verkadalai in Tamil and as Moongphali/Mungfali/Singdhana in Hindi.
Ingredients
- Sesame white and black – 1 table spoon each
- Peanut – 1 table spoon
- Jaggery chopped – 2 table spoon
- Cardamom – 2 no
Method
- Stuffing: In a dry pan roast sesame, peanut, cardamom; roast it till sesame splutters and nice aroma rises.
- Cool it and powder it in a grinder coarsely.
- Add jaggery and run the mixer once or twice for few seconds; now stuffing is ready.
- Dough:The dough for kozhukattai is prepared in many ways; you may follow any one of these two methods:
- Method 1: Boil two cups of water and add one cup of rice flour with pinch of salt; stir continuously to form a dough; cool and knead it to a soft, firm dough.
- Method 2: Soak one cup of rice for 1 hour; grind it with pinch of salt, ½ cup milk and water to thin batter; pour in a hot pan, stir constantly to form dough; cool and knead it to a soft, firm dough.
- for more details refer my Rice Idiyappam (String Hoppers) or Coconut and Masala Ammini Kozhakattai.
- Kozhukattai: Now lightly apply oil in your hand and take lemon size dough; shape it like a mini cup; though nowadays moulds are available, making with hands gives a traditional touch; fill it with stuffing.
- Seal it and steam cook for 5 to 6 minutes.
- Ellu kozhakkattai is ready.
Here is a mix of Ellu, Kara, Coconut, Mania Kozhukattai.
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last pic is very nice and tempting…looks delicious and sesame seeds def enhances the taste of any dish..
My grandma do the same puranam for her kozhukattai, looks yumm!!
Mmmm…your dumplings look delicious, quite like the dumplings that I eat in Chinese restaurants except with different filling. Your dumpling filling must be very delicious with all the sesame seeds and peanuts. Thanks for sharing.
i love kozhukattai….yours look very delicious
send me that plate..will show you have to finish it in 5 minutes…i am hungry right now