Ani’s Kids Recipe,South Indian samayal & Tips!

Just to share with you….

Vinayagar chaturthi is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Ganesha. Vinayagar Chaturthi is grandly celebrated in India.Lord Ganesha /Vinayagar is the Son of  Lord Shiva and Parvati. The festival Vinayaka Chaturthi is an occasion or a day on which Lord Ganesha makes his presence on earth for all his devotees. Whenever we remember “Vinayagar chathurthi ” /”Ganesh chathurthi” the first thing comes in our mind is “KOLUKKATAI”. There are different types of Kolukkattai’s (both sewwt and mirchi)  but we used to make this kara kolukkati always at my home. This can be eaten as tiffin as well as snack too.

 Ready for cooking

Kolukkattai

Ingredients

1. Idli rice  -2 cups
2. Coconut grated – 1/2 cup
3. Salt – to taste
4. oil -2 tsps
5. Mustard seeds – 1 teaspoon
6. Curry and corriander leaves
7. Channa dal /kadalaparuppu – 1/2 tsp
8. Urudal – 1/2 tsp
9. Green Chillies – 4-5
10. Onion medium size – 1

Preparation

1. Soak the rice forminimum of  2 hours and grind it into a  thick  coarse batter with salt (thick and close to rava consistency so that you can make shapess).
2.  Chop the onions, chillies, curry leaves and coriander leaves.
3.  Heat the pan with oil. Temper the mustard seeds, channa dal & urud dal. When it starts spluttering, add the onions, chillies and curry/corriander  leaves.
4.  Fry for few minutes and add the grated coconut.
5. To this add the  grinded bater  and mix well . Add salt if needed.
6.  Then add the coriander leaves and mix well.
7. Now make them into small portions and steam it in a idli pot / cooker for 10-15 minutes

Tips

Some of the variations you can try are :

• You can replace green chillies with red chillies.
• The  chillies can be ground along with the rice to serve children.
• Instead of grated coconut you can cut the cocount in to very small pieces and grind along with rice OR you can add the finely  chopped pieces to the batter directly.

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