Ammini Kozhukattai | Kara Kozhukattai

Name: Ammini Kozhukattai (Kara Ammini Kozhukattai)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1 Orange size Rice Flour Dough; 1 tsp Oil; 1 tsp Mustard seeds; ¼ tsp Green Chili; 1 sprig Curry leaves; 1 pinch Asafoetida (Asafetida / Hing); 1 tsp Red Chili Powder

Simple Traditional Healthy Snacks

Posted on Sep 15th, 2015

by Sowmya Venkatachalam

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Ammini Kozhukattai are the small dumplings (kozhukattai) made using the leftover dough that we use to make Kozhukattai. We usually prepare this on Ganesh Chathurthi as an offering to the god. We can toss it up with spices, coconut and other ingreditents to make it as per your liking. Very good for breakfast or evening tiffen and can be served with Coconut Chutney

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

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Ammini Kozhukattai is an easy to do snack. The key ingredient is left over Kozhukattai mavu (Outercover of modak). This Kozhukattai is so simple and easy to make. First we need to make tiny balls out of the left over dough and we need to steam cook those tiny balls and then finally we need to prepare a yummy tempering and toss the cooked Kozhukattai and its all ready!

For most of the festivals like Varalakshmi Viratham or Vinayaka Chaturti, we have custom of making Thengai Purana Kozhukattai. Not only for festivals, even for the monthly Shankatahara chaturti, many of us have tradition to make kozhukattai. Almost every time I make kozhukattai, I will have some left over dough and I make this ammini kozhuttai. My husband prefer savoury kozhukattai and he likes this ammini kozhukattai very much.

We can bring in lots of variations in the tempering and make this kozhukattai really appetizing and appealing. My MIL used to add left over urad dal purana kozhukattai filling with the left over dough and make small balls and then steam cook and finish the tempering. That way the dough itself will have the flavor of the dal and other spices and additional tempering makes it even more yummier.

Method for Ammini Kozhukattai with Step by Step Pictures :

Take the left over Kozhukattai dough and add red chilli powder, hing and mix well. Make tiny balls out of the kozhukattai dough and keep it ready

Grease the idli plate and keep the ammini kozhukattai in a pressure cooker plate. Pressure cook the ammini(mini) kozhukattai for 5 mins. Once cooked, remove from idli plate and keep it aside

Heat oil in pan, when the oil is hot, add mustard seeds and when the mustard seeds starts to sputter, add chopped green chillies, broken curry leaves, hing and add the cooked ammini(mini) kozhukattai and urdal pooranam(left over) and mix well and remove from flame.