Ellu kozhukattai | Sesame jaggery sweet dumplings-How to make-Step by step photos

Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, south india | Cooking Time: 20 minutes | To Serve: 5 | Type: Ganesh [vinayagar] Chaturthi festival special recipe

Ingredients

• Rice flour – 1 cup
• Water – ¾ to 1 cup or as needed
• Ellu [sesame seeds] – ¼ cup or 4 tbsp
• Jaggery – ¼ cup [grated]
• Salt a pinch
• Sesame oil - 1 tbsp

Method

• Dry roast sesame seeds. Take a bowl add, roasted sesame seeds, jaggery & salt mix well.
• In a bowl add rice flour & water stir well & make it idli batter consistency without lumps.
• Heat Pan, Pour batter and stir continuously and cut off heat when it becomes chapathi dough consistency.
• Divide the dough into equal size balls. Then grease finger with oil.
• Give pressure at the center, rotate and make it bowl shape. Fill with ellu poornam.
• Press three sides of the circle and seal you would get triangle shape.
• Steam for 5 min. Then serve hot.

How to make Ellu kozhukattai- Stepwise pictures[Instant& Quick]

Dry roast black sesame seeds

Put roasted sesame seeds in a mixer jar & coarsely grind

Ground sesame is ready

Melt jaggery, let it till cook thick syrup consistency

Add jaggery syrup

Sesame jaggery stuffing is ready

Add rice flour, water & salt mix well

Heat pan stir continuously till you get soft dough consistency

Kozhukattai dough is ready, add 1 tbsp of sesame oil, knead it & make soft dough

Take lemon size balls, shape circle

Place sweet sesame stuffing

Fold and close the edges

Make round ball shape again

Make star shape kozhukattai

Place prepared kozhukattai in an idli cooker, steam it for 8 min

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Sweet sesame kozhukattai is ready, offer to god and serve

Ellu Vellam Kozhukattai

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