Green Gram Kozhukattai | Pachhai Payiru Kozhukattai
Pachhai Payiru Kozhukattai, a Modak with Green gram and jaggery filling. Protein rich green gram is cooked and concocted with jaggery enriched with cardamom and coconut. This filling is then stuffed inside modak cups and steam cooked. A healthy and tasty variety of Kozhukattai/modak!
Servings: 20 people
Calories: 59kcal
Equipment
- Pressure Cooker
- Mixer Grinder
- Heavy Bottomed Pan
- Idli Plates
Ingredients
- 1 cup Kozhukattai Mavu 1 Cup - 250ml
- ½ cup Green Gram (Pachai Payiru)
- ¾ cups Grated Jaggery
- 1 tablespoon Grated Coconut
- 1 teaspoon Ghee (Clarified butter)
- 5 Cashew
- ¼ teaspoon Cardamom Powder
- 2 tablespoon Oil
Instructions
Frying Process
- Add the green gram in the pan and fry for sometime till we get good aroma and the green gram turns brown color.
Cooking Green Gram
- Cook the above fried gram in the pressure cooker and allow it to cook for 3 whistles. Strain the excess water from the cooked green gram
Grinding Cooked Dal
- Add the strained green moong dal to mixer. Then grind it lightly in a mixer.to a smooth powder.
Melt Jaggery
- Heat a pan, add grated jaggery and water to just soak the jaggery. In few minutes, the jaggery gets completely dissolved in water.
Filling Preparation
- When the jaggery dissolves completely in water, strain it to remove dust and sand particles. Add the strained jaggery juice again in the pan, and keep it in flame.
- When the the jaggery juice starts to boil and become thick, add green gram mixture, grated coconut, cardamom powder and stir well continuously till it roll like a ball and does not stick the sides of the pan.
- This is the correct consistency to remove from flame. Fry few cashews and add it to the puranam. Take the pooranam in a plate and allow it to cool off. Make small balls out of the pooranam and keep it in a plate.
Preparing Modak with Green Gram filling
- Take some oil in a bowl and take little oil in hand and then take little rice flour ball and make it like a cup and then in the middle of it add the pooranam ball and then close the flour and keep it aside. Repeat the same for rest of the flour and pooranam.
- Place it in the idly plate and steam cook it for 5 mins. Repeat the same for rest of the pooranam and kozhukattai dough.
Serving Time!
- The yummy Pachai Payiru poorana kozhukattai is ready for Neivedhyam on the auspicious occasion of Vinayaka Chaturthi and then server it hot.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1piece | Calories: 59kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 1g