Pidi kozhukkattai - salt and sweet

Ingredients:


Raw rice             : 2 cups
Tur dal                : 1/2 cup
pepper corns      : a few

Jeera                  : 1 spoon
In a dry pan, fry the above till you get a nice aroma and grind it to rawa consistency.

Oil                      : 3 tsp
Mustard seeds   : 1 tsp
Red chillies        : 3 (broken to pieces)
Urad dal             : 1 tsp
Coconut             : 1/2 (grated)
Curry leaves      : a few
Asafoetida         : a pinch


Method:

Heat oil in a pan. Splutter Mustard seeds. Then add urad dal, broken red chillies, asafoetida and curry leaves.
Add 4 cups water and salt.
When it boild add coconut and the powdered rice mix.
Mix well ensuring there are no lumps. You can keep it in a pressure cooker now.
After 2 whistles turn off heat.
If not using a pressure cooker,  keep turning it every now and then until the rice is cooked well and  gets upma consistency before  turning off heat.
Cool it  a bit. Make balls from the dough.
Steam in idli cooker or steamer for 8 to 10 minutes.

Pidi kozhukkattai - Sweet

Rice flour                     1 cup
Cardamom                   2 ( remove pod and powder)
Jaggery                       1/2 cup
Coconut                       two tblsp cut into thin bits.

Method:

In a dry pan fry the rice flour for a few minutes. This is to get rid of any moisture. it should not turn colour.
Take 2 cups water in a vessel and add the jaggery.
When the jaggery is completely dissolved, add the flour and coconut pieces and keep stirring till it comes out as a nice lumpless mass. The flour should be cooked well.
Remove from heat. Add cardomom powder.
Cool it  a bit.
Make lemon size balls out of the dough.
Steam for 8 to 10 minutes.

idli kozhukkattai

Ingredients

Idli Rice                 : 2 cups(Soaked for 4 hours)
Grated coconut     : 1/2 cup
Salt                       : to taste

For garnishing:
Urad dal - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
red chilli - 2 nos
Curry leaves (chopped) - a few
Oil - 2 tsps

Method:

1. Soak the idli rice in water for 4 hours.
2. Grind the soaked rice coarsely adding a little water. At the end, add the grated coconut to the mixture as well.
3. Heat oil in a kadai and when hot, add mustard seeds, urad seeds, red chillies and currly leaves.
4. Allow them to splutter.
5. Add the rice mixture and mix with salt till cooked and thick.
6. Make it into oblong kozhukattais or balls and steam it in the cooker.
7. Serve hot with chutney or arachu kalakki


Recipe courtesy: Bangaloremom (Via dailysamayal)