Thursday, September 20, 2012

Steamed Onion & Chickpeas Savoury Balls/Vengaya Kondakadalai Uppu Kozhukattai

Hope you all had a fabulous ganesh chathurthi celebrations, mine went well and we had a fantastic feast yesterday with our favourite foods. Coming to this yummy savoury balls, i prepared them quickly before yesterday's pooja, as i want something savoury for prasadams. This uppu kozhukattais take hardly less than half an hour to get ready and they tastes super delicious. Onions and chickpeas gives a wonderful flavour and taste to this easy breezy kozhukattais.With Ragi Paal Kozhukattais,Red Rice Ammini Kozhukattais and this onion chickpeas savoury balls we celebrated our favourite god Ganesha's birthday yesterday and enjoyed this healthy foods thoroughly..Sending to my own event Healthy Dish-Steamed Foods guest hosted by Jaleela of Cookbookjaleela,my own event CWS-Chickpeas guest hosted by Kavi of Foodmania and to Priti's Festive Food Ganesh Chaturthi.


1cup Rice flour
2cups Water
1no Onions (large and chopped)
1/2cup Chickpeas (cooked & mashed slightly)
2tbsp Grated coconut
1/2tsp Mustard seeds
1/2tsp Urad dal
1/2tsp Channadal
2nos Dry red chillies (broken)
1/4tsp Asafoetida powder
Oil
Salt
Few curry leaves

Heat enough oil, let splutters the mustard seeds,urad dal,channadal, add the broken red chillues,asafoetida powder and curry leaves, fry until the chillies turns brown.

Now add the chopped onions, saute until they turns transculent, add immediately the water, grated coconut and bring everything to boil.

Once the water starts boiling, add the mashed chickpeas,cook for few more seconds.

Add the rice flour to the cooking water and put the flame in simmer,stir well until the rice flour gets well cooked and turn as a thick dough.

Keep aside and let them cool completely.

Knead the cooked spiced rice flour dough and make medium sized balls out of it.

Steam cook for 10-15minutes and enjoy warm.

27 comments:

Roshu said... Reply To This Comment

Hmmm yummy n delicious!!!

Jeyashris Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Very innovative and tempting kozhukkatis

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Yummy and perfect healthy snack!

Ezcookbook said... Reply To This Comment

good looking outcome.... very colorful...

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Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious kolukattais....love it...

Shama Nagarajan said... Reply To This Comment

super delicious....Rush your entries for Know your Flours-Corn flour event in my blog.

Satya said... Reply To This Comment

delicious n healthy snack..yummy

Prathima Rao said... Reply To This Comment

yummy..yummmm!!! looks delish..
Prathima Rao
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Asmita said... Reply To This Comment

Wow,
This looks so good!

Sanoli Ghosh said... Reply To This Comment

Very new to me and interesting one dear. yummy.

Hema said... Reply To This Comment

Very innovative Priya..

Bhamathy said... Reply To This Comment

Nice kozhukattais. Happy Ganesh chaturthi!!

virunthu unna vaanga said... Reply To This Comment

lovely balls...
VIRUNTHU UNNA VAANGA

Suja Manoj said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy and tasty snack,innovative..will try this.

Mary Bergfeld said... Reply To This Comment

What a fabulous dish. This really looks delicious. I hope you have a great day. Blessings...Mary

Vimitha Durai said... Reply To This Comment

wat a innovative recipe dear... healthy

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

wow nice and healthy version...
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Teena said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious and healthy snack!

Reshmi Mahesh said... Reply To This Comment

Yummy looking kozhukattai...Innovative recipe..

Julie said... Reply To This Comment

Innovative & inviting kozhukattai..Yummy!!
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Amina Creations said... Reply To This Comment

wonderful recipe... looks delicious..

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

I just posted a similar dish on my blog, I make it with rice rava and without onions. Looks delicious.

Saraswathi Ganeshan said... Reply To This Comment

Different as usual.. Sound interesting and filling.. going to try this for tomorrow breakfast..

Mélange said... Reply To This Comment

Varied kozhukkatta this one is.

Binys Recipes said... Reply To This Comment

i wud love it with some spicy curry

AJ said... Reply To This Comment

Yumm!! I love these - I could just munch my way through an entire batch!

cookbookjaleela said... Reply To This Comment


Thanks for linking , healthy delicious kozukattai