Friday 15 August 2014

Kozhukkatta - rice flour dumplings filled with sweet jaggery

Today's post is about a yummy Kerala dish called Kozhukkatta.

This is very similar to dumplings. The outer thick shell covering is prepared using rice flour. Rice flour is mixed with hot water until it assumes a paste-like form to make the shell and filled with jaggery mixed with grated coconut. Then these dumplings are steamed in a steamer. That's it!

Jaggery is the unrefined, concentrated product of cane sugar. The color varies from dark to a golden brown. The Jaggery that we use (shown in the picture) was bought during a natural farming product sale conducted some time ago by Mr. Hilal at Kochi, a natural farming proponent in Kerala. They are cultivating many varieties of rice by natural, organic methods in Kerala.

Kozhukkatta is easy to prepare, one of my favorite dishes. It is a cool breakfast dish😊
Yummy!

More info :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozhukkattai

Yep, it is famous, it even has a Wikipedia page!!

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13 comments:

♥ Łucja-Maria ♥ said...

Hello Rajiv!
I like your post about food.
I love dumplings. It is a pity that I can not try your food.
It looks very appetizing.
Greetings from Polish.
Lucia

Rajiv Sankarapillai said...

Thanks Lucia :)
Great to hear that you liked this dish. I do not know where in Poland you can try these yummy Kerala dishes. But if you happen to travel then please try to find an authentic South Indian restaurant where you surely will get such dishes.
Thanks again, Lucia :)
It is my pleasure to see your comments here, all bubbling with enthusiasm and joy !
Cool !

Birgitta said...

Interesting! Looks good!

Rajiv Sankarapillai said...

Thanks Birgitta :)
Its a yummy dish :)

Beena said...

Love it . My all time favourite dish.Perfectly made.

Rajiv Sankarapillai said...

Thanks Beena :)
I was surprised to see a webpage for our Kozhukkatta in wikipedia when I researched before posting !
Glad to see many from world over commenting about this yummy dish.
Have an awesome weekend :)

Sherry Ellis said...

I've never tried anything like that. I'll have to look up the recipe.

Rajiv Sankarapillai said...

Thanks Sherry :)
Don't know if you will get this yummy dish in an Indian restaurant there.
Let me try to modify this post with a detailed recipe. Will have to ask for help from the people managing the kitchen at home though :)

Blackswan said...

Oh, you guys have dumplings too?? Too cool! It's nice to see some food post here, Rajiv!

Amelia said...

Hi Rajiv, nice dumpling. Our Chinese menu have different version of dumplings too, sweet and savory.
Thanks for sharing.

Best regards.

Rajiv Sankarapillai said...

yep, these dishes are all similar. After all we are all Asians :), isn't it?
Thanks Amelia :)

Rajiv Sankarapillai said...

yep, I named it as dumplings. It is similar to Chinese dumplings.
Thanks Shirley :)

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