Sunday, August 23, 2009

Wheat Flour Pidi Kozhukattai & Happy Ganesh Chathurthi

Wishing you all a Happy Ganesh Chathurthi....Hope u all might be enjoying today's delicious dishes, which u prepared to celebrate this famous chathurthi day...I prepared too many dishes to celebrate this great day and the menu starts with mixed beans sundal, coconut and jaggery balls, onion medhu vadais, modaks, rawa and oats kheer etc, yea today's menu was quite a long and we enjoyed this great day with all these yummy dishes....Last year i prepared  for ganesh chathurthi Ragiflour Pidi Kozhukattais and this year i want to make kozhukattais as another healthy and delicious dumplings, to change the usual way of making out kozhukattais i went for wheat flour which is one more healthiest way to prepare these sweet dumplings..i used storebought wheat flour(atta) to prepare this fabulous wheat flour dumplings with jaggery, dry roasted moongdal and grated coconut...Easy, yet healthy also delicious kozhukattais are ready within few minutes..These kozhukattais goes to Purva's FF-Janmashtami & Ganesh Chathurthi..


Here is some of my dishes, will post all these dishes one by one very soon...now lets go to wheat flour pidi kozhukattai..


1cup Wheat flour
1/2cup Jaggery
1+1/4cup Water
2tbsp Split moongdal
1tsp Cardamom powder
1/4cup Grated coconut
1/4tsp Salt
1tbsp Oil

Dry roast the wheat flour in a pan for few minutes,keep aside..now dry roast the split moongdal in a pan until they turns golden brown.

Heat the water, oil and salt, once the water starts boiling, add the jaggery pieces and make a syrup...strain this syrup and heat again until they starts thickens, add immediately the roasted wheat flour;roasted moongdal, grated coconut,cardamom powder and stir everything until the wheat flour get off from the pan...let them cool.

Take a small ball from the dough n press in ur fingers..Pressure cook them for 10 minutes in Idly Cooker..
Serve hot..

27 comments:

Priya dharshini said... Reply To This Comment

happy ganesh chathurthi

sathya said... Reply To This Comment

Happy Ganesh Chathurthi priya!
The Kozukattai looks delicious, waiting to see the other recipes too :)

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

New dish to me, loved all your prasadams. Happy Vinayaka Chathurthi to you too.

PriyaRaj said... Reply To This Comment

Happy vinayaka Chathruthi dear..... kozukattai looks in perfect shape..nice recipes..

Home Cooked Oriya Food said... Reply To This Comment

Happy Ganesh Chaturthi

Sushma Mallya said... Reply To This Comment

Happy ganesh chaturti priya...lovely picture....

Priya Narasimhan said... Reply To This Comment

ganesh ji looks very very cute.:-) and nice recipes..

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

happy ganesh chaturthi..lovely photo with all the neivedyams and a cute ganesh idol..

Valarmathi Sanjeev said... Reply To This Comment

Happy Ganesh Chathurthi. Kozukattai looks yummy.

Indian Khana said... Reply To This Comment

Wish you same dear...your pics are so tempting and your modak is so perfect in shape..hope u had gud day celebrating

Saritha said... Reply To This Comment

Happy ganesh chavathi :)

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Happy Ganesh chaturthi priya yummmy spread looks great yummmmmm.

Sanghi said... Reply To This Comment

Happy vinayaga chadhurthi priya! Kozhukkatai looks different and yummy!!

Shama Nagarajan said... Reply To This Comment

yummy delights and lovely vinayakar

Parita said... Reply To This Comment

Happy ganesh chaturthi!

Purva Desai said... Reply To This Comment

Wishing U and ur family Happy Ganesh Chaturthi....
This is a new dish for me, it looks delicious.....
U can sent this post for Ganesh Chaturthi event on my blog...

Pavani said... Reply To This Comment

Happy vinyaka chavithy priya...and new baby boy was born on august 12 and my health is good...

Gita Jaishankar said... Reply To This Comment

Happy Ganesh Chathurthi dear...wheat kozukattais look so delicious...what a healthy way to celebrate :)

dsdsds said... Reply To This Comment

Happy Vinayagar Chaturthi Priya.. Those rice flour Kozhukattai looks perfect.. We too used to make Ragi Kozhukattai for Koozh during Aadi month.. This Wheat kozhukattai is totally new to me.. Will give it a try..

Shri said... Reply To This Comment

Happy Ganesh Chaturthi,Priya!The Kozhukattai looks very pretty!

Anonymous said... Reply To This Comment

Happy Ganesh Chathurthi Priya..great spread ..

Padma said... Reply To This Comment

Happy Ganesha Chathurthi Priya... Nice spread :)

LifenSpice said... Reply To This Comment

What a delicious spread Priya! hope you had a great Ganesh Chathurti. Waiting for the recipes..that Ganesha idol looks so beautiful!

Vrinda said... Reply To This Comment

Yummy kozhukkattai,it looks like our kinnathappam...happy ganesha chathurthi to u and family...

Cilantro said... Reply To This Comment

Happy Vinayakaya Chaturthi! Lovely & healthy kozhukattai.

Pooja said... Reply To This Comment

happy vinayaka chathurthi dear ! looks lovely !

dsdsds said... Reply To This Comment

Nice spread Priya..