
Paal Kozhukattai
Rice flour dumplings simmered in sweetened coconut milk with cardamom. Delicate Tamil festival dessert.
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Time 40 min · Serves 6 · 412 kcal · Central Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu
Ingredients
Garnish
- Cardamom Powder (garnish) — 2 g
Main
- Rice Flour — 200 g
- coconut milk — 400 g
- Jaggery — 200 g
- salt — 1 g
- Water — 500 g
- Coconut Oil — 5 g
Method
- Boil 250 ml water with salt and coconut oil.
- Add rice flour, stir fast and switch off. Cover for 5 minutes.
- Knead into a smooth dough while warm.
- Roll into small marble-sized balls.
- Melt jaggery in 100 ml water and strain.
- Boil 150 ml water, drop in the balls and cook till they float.
- Add the jaggery syrup and simmer for 3 minutes.
- Lower the flame, add coconut milk and cardamom. Heat without boiling.
Common questions
- How many calories in one plate of Paal Kozhukattai?
- 412 kcal per plate.
- How much cooking time?
- 40 min — 20 min prep, 20 min cooking.
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