KOZAKATTAI

KOZAKATTAI

Dough  making

Rice flour 1 cup
water 1 1/4 cup
gingelly oil 2 tsp

Take a heavy bottomed kadai and heat water to boil adding the oil in it. When it starts boiling reduce the flame to sim add the rice flour and mix well . The mixture will thicken immediately and roll like a ball. Close with the lid and keep it in sim for 5 minutes.Switch off the stove.

When the dough becomes warm knead it to a soft dough and make goosebery shaped balls of it and keep aside.

Prepare puranam for filling


Salt puranam

Urid dal 1 cup [pre soaked]
salt as per taste.
red chilli 2 nos.
asofeotida half tsp

For seasoning

Oil 4 tsp
Mustard seed 1 tsp

Sweet puranam.

Coconut one cup freshly grated and finely grated for evenness.
jaggery 1 cup grated.
Cardomom 2 nos.

Method for making both puranams.

Salt puranam

Grind the dal adding very less water along with other ingredients.
Steam the batter for five minutes.
Take a kadai and add oil and mustard seed. When it splutters add the steam cooked batter and let it cook till it comes as a powder.Add curry leaves and coriander .Keep this aside.

Sweet puranam
Add coconut and jaggery in a heavy bottomed kadai and cook till jaggery melts.Add a tsp of roasted gram dal powder .Now the mixture will become like a ball. When it cools make small balls of it and keep aside.

Take a ball of the dough and roll it like a chappati using the roller , by applying oil on the surface, roller pin and also the dough. Fill the puranam and close it like the fig shown in the photo graph.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvnmMZ2BvRM

Similarly make small puri shape of the dough and fill the salt puranam and close as shown in the photo.

Steam cook all the above kozakatai's for 10 minutes.

MODAKAM MAKING

Maida half cup
water for making the dough
salt a pinch
oil for deep frying
Take half cup of maida flour, add a pinch of salt and add little water to make it a smooth dough .Fill the sweet and salt puranam and deep fry it in oil.