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Upma Kozhukattai
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Upma Kozhukattai | Kara Pidi Kozhukattai

Very scrumptious and tasty upma with broken raw rice along with Indian spices. It's a traditional breakfast dish. This can be served with Coconut Chutney / Vendhaya Kuzhambu.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Rice Drying Time30 minutes
Total Time1 hour 5 minutes
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: Indian, South Indian, Tamil Brahmin, Tamilnadu
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 42kcal
Author: Sowmya Venkatachalam

Equipment

  • Pressure Cooker
  • Heavy Bottomed Pan

Ingredients

  • 1 Cup Raw Rice
  • 2.5 Cups Water
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • ¼ Cup Grated Coconut optional

For Tempering

  • 1 tablespoon Oil
  • 1 teaspoon Mustard seeds
  • 1 teaspoon Split Urad Dal
  • 1 teaspoon Split Bengal Gram (Channa Dal / Kadalaparuppu)
  • 2 nos Red Chili broken
  • ¼ teaspoon Asafoetida (Asafetida / Hing)
  • 1 sprig Curry Leaves

Instructions

  • Wash the raw rice (preferably Pacharisi) in water. Strain the water and spread the rice in the towel. Let the rice dry completely. Once the rice is dried, grind the rice in the mixer and grind it like sooji (rawa) and keep it aside. Make sure that the rice is not ground completely like rice flour.
  • Heat the oil in the pan. When the oil is hot, add the mustard seeds. Once the mustard seeds starts to sputter add the urdhal, channa dhal, broken red chilis and curry leaves. Fry the above mixture till dhal turn into golden brown color. Finally add hing and switch off the flame .
  • Take the broken rice in a vessel. Add 2.5 cups of water along with salt. Add Seasoning to the water and stir well
  • Finally add grated coconut and stir well. Keep the vessel inside the pressure cooker and pressure cook allowing for 3 whistles
  • Allow the pressure to release fully. Then open the cooker and stir the cooked upma well
  • Spread the cooked upma in plate and allow it to cool. Once it's warm, make a small dumplings out of it and place it in a Idly plate and steam cook it for five minutes.
  • Serve Upma Kozhukattai with coconut chutney / Vendhya kuzhambu

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Notes

  1. We can use dry rice also to make upma kozhukattai. The main reason to wash and dry rice is that while grinding we will get evenly coarse rice
  2. We can also add ¼ cup of toor dal along with rice 
  3. We can also use 1 teaspoon of peppercorns while grinding the rice
  4. We can make large quantity of coarsely ground rice powder and store it in air-tight container and use it whenever needed

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 42kcal | Carbohydrates: 5.8g | Protein: 0.7g | Fat: 1.7g | Sodium: 0.3mg | Potassium: 3.9mg | Fiber: 0.6g | Calcium: 1.5mg | Iron: 0.1mg