Pudi kozhakattai is dinner tiffin similar to rice upma but made into small balls and steamed in a cooker.
Serving size: 4
Time taken: 1 hour
Ingredients for the dish:
Raw rice: 1 cup
Channa dal (white chick peas): 2 spoons
Toor dal (yellow lentil): 3 spoons
Pepper: ½ spoon
Red chilli: 2
Coriander leaves
Grated coconut: 2 spoons
Salt to taste
Preparation method:
Soak raw rice upon washing in some water and keep it aside for 15 minutes to dry. Later grind it in a mixer to form a uniform powder. Fry toor dal and pepper slightly and form a uniform powder to be added separately. Take little refined oil in a pan, heat put mustard seeds and let it splatter, add red chilli, channa dal, coriander and add 3 cups of water. Add raw rice powder and toor dal+pepper powder to it with 1 spoon salt. And stir it to cool it. Make big balls from the batter and steam it in an idli cooker for 10 minutes. Let it bake and serve it with chutney.