Peanut Coconut Kozhukattai Recipe / Easy Sweet Kollukattai

peanut coconut kozhukattai recipe

Peanut Coconut Kozhukattai Recipe / Verkadalai Kozhukattai is a healthy and yummy kozhukattai with peanut, coconut and jaggery filling. Making this kolukattai at home is simple. If you don’t like jaggery, replace it with sugar for filling. My husband loves peanut, so I tried this kollukattai few days back. If you are a peanut lover, you will absolutely love this kozhukattai. Try this easy, tasty kolukattai for coming vinayagar chaturthi.

Also try my 10 tasty kozhukattai (modak)recipes for ganesh chaturthi

  1. Sesame Seeds (Ellu) Kozhukattai
  2. Coconut Jaggery Kozhukattai
  3. Pancha Khadya Modak
  4. Sprouted Green Gram Kozhukattai
  5. Aval Kara Kozhukattai
  6. Sweet Aval Pidi Kozhukattai
  7. Paal Kozhukattai
  8. Chocolate Coconut Modak
  9. Mani Kozhukattai(kara kozhukattai)
  10. Red Rice Kara Kozhukattai
  11. Red Rice Sweet Kozhukattai

 

How to make Peanut Coconut Kozhukattai Recipe

Peanut Coconut Kozhukattai Recipe / Easy Kozhukattai Recipe
 

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Peanut Coconut Kozhukattai Recipe / Verkadalai Kozhukattai is a yummy kozhukattai with peanut, coconut and jaggery filling. Try this easy, tasty kolukattai for coming vinayagar chaturthi.
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Recipe type: sweets
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 12

Ingredients
  • For outer covering
  • 1 cup of rice flour
  • Water as required
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tsp of ghee / oil
  • For filling
  • ½ cup of roasted peanuts
  • ¼ cup of coconut
  • ¼ cup + 2 tbsp of jaggery
  • 2 cardamom, crushed
  • Pinch of salt

Instructions
  1. In a pan, roast the coconut in a medium flame and keep it aside.
  2. In a mixie, add roasted peanuts, roasted coconut, jaggery, cardamom and salt. Grind everything together. Make equally sized balls out of the mixture.
  3. For the outer covering dough, bring the water to boil along with ghee. In a bowl, add rice flour and salt, add water slowly and keep mixing with spatula.
  4. Let it cool it for 2 mins, it will be warm by now, start kneading to form a smooth dough. Keep covered to prevent from drying.
  5. Make a equally sized balls out of the dough. Grease your hand with oil, take a ball and flatten it with your hand. Place the peanut ball in the centre. Fold it and seal it in the centre. Repeat the same process for the rest of the dough.
  6. Steam the kozhukatta in a idly pan or steamer for 10 mins.
  7. Peanut cococnut kozhukattai is ready to serve.

Notes
Here I used roasted peanuts. If you don’t have that. Dry roast the peanuts separately in a pan.
Add sugar, if don’t like jaggery.
Adding a pinch of salt enhances sweetness.

verkadalai kozhukattai

 

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Pancha Khadya Modak Recipe / Khirapat modak

panchakhadyamodak recipe

Pancha Khadya Modak Recipe / khirapat modak is a famous sweet modak(dumpling) from Maharashtra (India). Panchakhadya is a special neivedyam that is offered to Lord Ganesha on Ganesh Chaturti.  Khirapat contains 5 main ingredients starting with kha in Marathi letter – Khobra(coconut), Kharik(dates), khaskhas(poppy seeds), khismis(raisins), khadisakhar(rock sugar). Mixture of these 5 ingredients combined together gives you this scrumptious modak. Try this pancha khadya modak for Ganesh Chaturti and let me know how you liked it.

How to make Pancha Khadya Modak

 

Pancha Khadya Modak Recipe / Easy Modak Recipe
 

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Pancha Khadya Modak Recipe / khirapat modak is a famous sweet modak from Maharashtra. Panchakhadya is a special neivedyam that’s offered to Lord Ganesha on Ganesh Chaturti.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 3

Ingredients
  • For outer covering
  • ⅓ Cup of Rice Flour
  • Water as required
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 Tsp of Ghee
  • For Filling
  • ¼ Cup of Grated Coconut
  • 1 Tbsp of Raisins
  • 3 Tsp of Powdered Rock Candy (kalkandu)
  • 5 Dates
  • 1 Tsp of Khus Khus (Poppy seeds)
  • Few Cashews, Chopped

Instructions
  1. Dry roast the coconut until colour changes and keep it aside.
  2. Dry roast the poppy seeds in a medium flame for few mins and keep it aside.
  3. Remove seeds from dates, soak it in hot water for few mins and grind them coarsely.
  4. In a mixie, powder the sugar and keep it aside.
  5. Finally in mixie, add all the ingredients and grind it together. Khirapat filling is ready.
  6. For the outer covering dough, bring the water to boil along with ghee. In a bowl, add rice flour and salt, add water slowly and keep mixing with spatula.
  7. Let it cool it for 2 mins, it will be warm by now, start kneading to form a smooth dough. Keep covered to prevent from drying.
  8. Make a equally sized balls out of the dough. Grease your hand with oil, take a ball and flatten it with your hand. Add a tsp of filling in the centre. Fold it and seal it in the centre. Repeat the same process for the rest of the dough.
  9. Steam the modak in a idly pan or steamer for 10 mins.
  10. Pancha Khadya Modak Recipe / khirapat modak is ready for neivedhyam.

Notes
Add any nuts of your choice.
If you don’t have rock candy, replace it with regular sugar.
If you want, you can also add a pinch of cardamom powder or nutmeg powder.

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Chocolate Coconut Modak Recipe / How to make Chocolate Filling Modak

Chocolate Coconut Modak Recipe

Chocolate Coconut Modak Recipe is an easy, interesting and yummy modak.  I went to walmart yesterday for weekly grocery shopping and I  bought almond joy chocolate.  Yumm 😛  I love almond joy, every bite was heavenly in taste. Today when I was eating almond joy in the morning and thinking for a different unique modak recipe than usual one for a new post, my brain says wait a minute, you got the filling  idea. Yes, this modak filling is going to taste like almond joy. To replicate that, I made the modak with rice flour covering and for filling, I used choco chips, almonds, ghee and coconut. You can make this easy, addictive, delicious chocolate modak for kids for upcoming ganesh chaturthi and enjoy. If you try my recipe, let me know in comment box how it turned out for you.

Also check my other kozhukattai recipes

  1. Coconut Jaggery Kozhukattai
  2. Ellu Kozhukattai
  3. Paal Kozhukattai
  4. Sweet Aval Pidi Kozhukattai

How to make Chocolate Coconut Modak Recipe

Chocolate Coconut Modak Recipe / How to make Chocolate Filling Modak
 

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Chocolate Coconut modak recipe / Chocolate Filling Modak is a delicious variation of traditional modak. Make this for kids for ganesh chaturthi 2015 .
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Recipe type: Sweets
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 4

Ingredients
  • ⅓ Cup of Rice Flour
  • Water as required
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 Tsp of Ghee / Oil
  • For Filling
  • ¼ Cup of Chocolate Chips
  • ¼ Cup of Grated Coconut
  • 7 Almonds, Chopped
  • 2 Tsp of Powdered Sugar or Condensed Milk
  • 1 Tsp of Ghee / Butter

Instructions
  1. For the outer covering dough, bring the water to boil along with ghee. In a bowl, add flour and salt, Add water slowly and keep mixing with spatula.
  2. Let it cool it for 2 mins, it will be warm by now, start kneading to form a smooth dough. Keep covered to prevent from drying.
  3. For filling, take a bowl and melt the chocolate chips in microwave for 30 secs. To that, add coconut, chopped almonds, sugar and ghee or butter.
  4. Make a equally sized balls out of the dough. Grease your hand with oil, take a ball and flatten it with your hand. Add a tsp of filling in the centre. Fold it and seal it in the centre. Repeat the same process for the rest of the dough.
  5. Steam the modak in a idly pan or steamer for 10 mins.
  6. Hot, delicious Chocolate Coconut Modak is ready to serve.

Notes
Adding oil or ghee gives a softer modak.
Boil water well, so that you get soft and non sticky dough.
If kozhukattai looks shiny after steaming, it means they are done. Do not over cook it for long time.
Make thin outer layers of the dough so that the kozhukattai are soft and gets cooked easily.

 

how to make chocolate modak

 

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