Kara Pidi Kozhukattai Recipe with Rice flour – Kara Kozhukattai Recipe

• Store bought rice flour – 1 cup (Use idiyappam or kozhukattai flour)
• Water – 2 cups
• Salt – as needed

To temper

• Coconut oil – 1 tbsp
• Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
• Urad dal – 1 tbsp
• Chana dal – 1.5 tbsp
• Red chillies – 3-4 nos ( pinched into small pieces)
• Curry leaves – few
• Asafetida/Hing – a big pinch
• Grated coconut – 1/4 cup

• Heat oil in a kadai and splutter mustard seeds, urad dal & chana dal. Saute till golden. Add pinched red chillies and curry leaves. Add hing. Mix well. Add water, grated coconut and salt.

• When the water starts to roll boil, simmer the flame completely and add the rice flour. Mix well without lumps. Rice flour absorbs all the water and becomes a whole mass. Gather it and remove in a plate. Let it become warm.

• Grease your hands with oil and make kozhukattai using your fingers.Take a big gooseberry sized ball and press it with your fingers to make it elongated. Kozhukattai will get the impression of fingers. Make all the kozhukattai and arrange them in a greased idli plate.
• Heat water in a idli pot and let it roll boil. Now keep the idli plate and cook for 5 minutes. Switch off the flame and remove the kozhukattai when it becomes slightly warm. Enjoy !

• You can use homemade rice flour if you have in hand.Water quantity may vary slightly.
• Red chillies can be replaced with finely chopped green chillies too.
• My mom makes this kozhukattai by reserving some idli rice batter while grinding for idli,dosa batter.You can also try that way.
• You can also make it by soaking and grinding raw rice. It tastes even more better.