Mani kozhukatai

Making the rice balls

Source :

4thSenseSamayal

Anubhavati

Rice flour - 1 cup
Water - 1 1/4 cups
Green Chilly - 5
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Asafoetida(perungayam) - a pinch
Salt - for taste
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves

Boil 1 1/4 cups of water adding a little salt to it. When it boils, simmer the flame and add the rice flour stirring it constantly. See to it that it does not form lumps. Now switch off the flame and leave the vessel closed for around ten min. Then sprinkle some water over it and kneed the dough to make it smooth.

Roll it into small balls and place them on a well greased plate and Steam them in the pressure cooker without weight for 10 minutes on high. As they have already been cooked once, it will cook in steam pretty fast.

Once the cooker is switched off, wait for a few minutes and collect all the balls on the serving bowl.

In a seasoning kadai, add 2 spoons of oil. When hot, add broken urad dhal, mustard, green chillies, hing and curry leaves.

Drop over the kozhukattais and mix well

Delicious Mani Kozhakattais are ready to be served.