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poha healthy pidi kozhukattai with red/brown aval

Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • Red poha/aval flattened rice - 2 cups(soaked for 20 minutes)
  • Jaggery - 1 cup crushed
  • cardamom powder - 2 tsp
  • Cashews and pista's few
  • Grated coconut - 3/4-1 cup
  • Ghee - 2 tbsp pinch of salt

Instructions
 

  • First soak poha for 20 minutes (wash well before soaking).
  • Squeeze and take in a mixer jar add a pinch of salt and whisk till it is ground(not like a paste but every thing should come together).
  • In between add jaggery in a pan add very less water say 2-3 tbsp and melt it when melted filter and keep ready.
  • Now roast cashews and pista's in 2 tbsp of ghee.
  • Grind it keep ready.
  • In same ghee roast coconut nicely and add this to poha with nuts,elachi powder and mix to form a dough by adding jaggery syrup.
  • When combined make pidi kozhukattai's in shape by closing the wrist so that fingers are nicely printed to the dough.
  • Make every thing to pidi kozhukattai shape and keep it in a steamer or idli maker and cook for 10 minutes and delicious kozhukattai's are ready to be served.

Notes

Dont add more water while dissolving jaggery the total recipe will be lost.
Adding nuts is purely optional.
The nuts should not be ground smoothly.
Adding coconut gives a special taste to this kozhukattai.
The same can be substituted using white aval or poha.