Kozhukkatta - Kerala Rice Dumplings - Like Modak

Makes about 14 small Dumplings


Ingredients 

• Rice flour -1 ½ cup
• Water 1 ¼ cup
• Jaggery 1 ½ cups
• Oil or ghee 1 tsp
• Coconut grated – 1 ½ cups
•  Salt a pinch
•  Cardamom powder : 1 tsp

 Method

1. Sieve rice flour.
2. Add salt & ghee to water and boil it.
3. Pour this water into the rice powder, stir with a ladle and knead well to make smooth dough, without lumps.
4. Make big lemon sized balls out of this dough.

Stuffing for the Kozhukatta

• Melt jaggery on low flame in half a cup of water and filter to remove impuritie
• Heat a thick bottomed saucepan, add a spoon of oil / ghee and mix the grated coconut and cardamom powder
• Roast it for some time and pour in the jaggery syrup. Keep it over the flame till the moisture dries up with constant stirring.
• Switch off the flame and transfer it to a bowl (optional) 

Making the Dumplings

• Grease your palms with oil, place a ball of dough on your palm and flatten it into a small circle. You can dip your fingers in the water+ oil mix, if needed to make it easier.
•   Now place a ball of the prepared jaggery stuffing.
•    Bring all the corners together and close it. Give it a nice shape  
•   Repeat the process for all the rice flour balls.

Steaming

• Place in a perforated pot and steam for 15 mins