StuffedRiceflour Cake

( Kozhukattai )

Marinating Time :  2 Hours

Cook Time :Under 30 Minutes

Prep Time :Under 30 Minutes

Serves :5 People

Yield :Filling Snack for 5

INGREDIENTS:

• Rice – 1 cup
• Salt for taste
• Oil – little
• Jaggery  ( sugar )– ½ cup
• Kaskas – 2 tbls
• Cashew – 10 pcs
• Pista – 8 pcs
• Dessicated coconut – 3 tbls
• Ghee – 2 tbls

PREPARATION:

Soak 1 cup rice in 1 cup water for 2 hrs.without adding extra water grind it well. Boil 1 cup water with added salt and 1 teaspoon oil, while its boiling add the grinded rice mixture and stir well  till it becomes a smooth dough. keep it aside.This is the main ingredient for rice flourcake, kozhukattai.

STUFFING:

1. Put kaskas,cashew, pista, semolina(sooji, rava) jaggery (can also used sugar), dessicated coconut in a mixer and grind it to a course powder.
2. Add ghee in a vessel, heat slightly and add the powder,stir well till its raw smell goes. Make a small ball of the dough, press with hand to get a round shape, put the stuffing inside, fold it half circle.similarly you can make it in different shapes.
3. Steam this in a steamer or in a idly cooker for 10 minutes.Stuffed riceflour cake is ready for serving.It is one of the festival recipes (Ganesh Chaturti)of India.
4. You can also use different stuffing like grated coconut mixed with sugar,
5. mashed dhal(lentils) with jaggery
6. Do it the same way as instructed above with ghee.
7. This stuffed rice flour cake is easily digestible,and different stuffing’s makes this rice cake more delicious.