Made as an offering on “karadaiyam nombu”
Ingredients
Rice Flour (made as in step 1) 2 cups
Water 4 cups
Coconut ½ of half coconut split to small thin pieces
Ginger finely chopped
Green chillies 6-8 finely chopped
Cowpeas ¼ cup
Asafoetida
Curry leaves
Mustard seeds 1 tsp
Urad dal 2 tsp (optional)
Salt 1 ½ tsp
Oil
Get Cooking!
1. Soak, wash, drain the rice, and grind to a powder which is not so coarse and not too fine.
2. Roast the cowpeas, steam them.
3. Sauté mustard seeds, urad dal, ginger, green chillies in say 5 to 6 tsp oil.
4. Add in the water, salt, coconut pieces, asafoetida, cut curry leaves and bring to a boil.
5. Add the steamed cowpeas, then stir in the rice flour taking care not to form lumps till it becomes like dough.
6. Take this off the heat, knead the dough.
7. Make patties around ½ “thick, make a whole in the centre like that in a dough nut.
8. Steam these patties. Once cooked, they appear glossy.
Tips
Quantity of water to be used is according to the quality of the rice. Depending on that, water should be 1 ½ to 2 times the quantity of rice. If you don’t have cowpeas, you could add tuvar dal. You could use the rice flour u get in a grocery store, just roast it well before. The coconut could be grated and used for this.
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