Paal Kozhukkatai

I love this recipe, though I have not prepared it often. I made this dish for a first time on a vinayagar chadurthy day (two years before, I guess). It came out well. I like the flavour of cardamom with milk while the kozhukkatai melting in mouth :)

 Ingredients:

Rice Flour - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup (adjust)
Milk - 1 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
Ghee - 3 tsp
Salt - a big pinch
Water - as required

Method:

In a heavy bottomed pan, mix rice flour with 1/2 cup water and 1/4 cup milk, 1/2 cup sugar, salt and 2 tsp of ghee. The mixture should be without any lumps.

Heat this mixture in medium flame till the batter comes to a dough consistency, stirring continuously. Turn off the heat. Let it come to room temperature. Make small balls out of it. Preferably small sized balls.

Boil the remaining milk in a vessel. Once it starts boiling, add these balls, remaining sugar and combine gently. Let it boil in medium flame for about 8-10 minnutes. Gently mix in between. Add cardamom powder and continue to cook for another 3 minutes. Turn off the heat.

Serve warm or chilled.

Note:

• You can boil the balls in coconut milk as well.
• Instead of cooking the rice flour batter till dough consistency, you can make dough by mixing all those ingredients mentioned and then you can make balls like we do for chappathi. You may steam those balls and go ahead with rest of the process.

~ I have not tried the above two points, so I am NOT sure about this.

However, the Recipe that I have posted will give very tasty kozhukkatai :)