Sweet Pidi Kozhukattai Recipe – Vella Kozhukattai Recipe with rice flour

We make sweet pidi kozhukattai for Chitra Pournami, aadi velli and Navratri as well. Recently I heard from my South Indian friends making pidi kozhukattai for Ganesh chaturthi too. Some people call this as Vella kozhukattai/Vellam kolukattai. So I thought of making this post for this festival. Usually I make pidi kozhukatti with homemade processed rice flour. 

Today I have shared a version with store bought rice flour( I used Anil kozhukattai maavu).Its cooking procedure is very similar to sweet ammini kozhukattai recipe. Only the shapes are different. So its like a two in one recipe. Do try this easy and simple sweet kozhukattai variety for this Ganesh chaturthi and have a great celebration ! Lets see how to do this easy sweet pidi kozhukattai recipe with rice flour. Check out my Easy Kara Pidi kozhukattai too !

Sweet pidi kozhukattai recipe

Sweet pidi kozhukattai with rice flour, jaggery and coconut

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Sweet

Serves: 12

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 5 Minutes

Total time: 15 Minutes

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

1 cup — 250ml Kozhukattai Rice flour or idiyappam flour – 1/2 cup ( I used Anil Kozhukattai flour) Grated jaggery or powdered jaggery – 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp Water – 1 cup  Cardamom powder – 1/4 tsp Grated coconut or coconut pieces – 2 tbsp Oil – to grease hands and idli plate

METHOD

Take the powdered jaggery in a kadai. Add 1 cup of water and heat it. Melt the jaggery and strain it with a metal strainer. After straining the syrup, boil it till frothy. Simmer the flame and add grated coconut, cardamom powder. Mix well & boil. Add the measured rice flour. Mix well till all the syrup is absorbed by the rice flour. It will become a thick, soft dough. Grease your hands with oil and take a small ball sized dough. Press it with 4 fingers towards inside and make an impression as shown in the picture below. Make all the kozhukattai and arrange them in a greased idli plate. Boil water in a idli pot and let it start to roll boil. Place the idli plate with kozhukattai. Steam it for 5-7 minutes in high flame. It will look shiny. Check if it bounces on a plate. Switch off the flame and let the kozhukattai be inside the pot for 5 minutes. Then remove them from the plate and serve.Enjoy !

Note

Do not add more water if you add less jaggery because kozhukattai tastes less sweet in this case. The quantity of jaggery and water should be proportionate. You can add more jaggery i.e Rice flour & jaggery in 1:2 ratio of you want sweeter kozhukattai.