Pearl millet walnut sweet dumplings, Bajra walnut kozhukattai

Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, South India | Preparation & Cooking Time: 15 minutes | To Serve: 3 | Take with: Honey, tea, chocolate syrup| Type: Breakfast, dinner

Ingredients

• Kambu [Pearl millet, Bajra] – 1 cup
• Wall nuts – 2 tbsp [ghee roasted, chopped]
• Peanuts – 2 tbsp [dry roasted & chopped]
• Pistachio – 4
• Coconut – ½ cup [Grated]
• Jaggery or karupatti– ½ cup [grated]
• Cardamom powder-1 tbsp
• Cashew nuts – 8
• Raisins [Kismiss] -10
• Ghee – 1 tbsp
• Warm water - 2 to 3 tbsp or as needed

Preparation Method

• Dry roast pearl millet, let it cool.
• Add pearl millet in a mixer jar & grind to fine powder.
• Heat ghee in a pan & roast wall nuts, cashew nuts, pistachio, raisins and then chop.
• In a bowl, add freshly ground pearl millet powder, grated coconut, wall nuts, peanuts , cashew nuts, pistachio, raisins, cardamom powder, ghee and grated jaggery mix well.
• Drizzle enough warm water & make soft dough.
• Take a lemon size portion and fold down with 5 fingers and press gently.
• Steam it in an Idli cooker for 10 min & serve.

Bajra walnut kozhukattai