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.
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
In a pan, roast the coconut in a medium flame and keep it aside.
In a mixie, add roasted peanuts, roasted coconut, jaggery, cardamom and salt. Grind everything together. Make equally sized balls out of the mixture.
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.
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.
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.
Steam the kozhukatta in a idly pan or steamer for 10 mins.
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.
Recipe by FoodyBuddy at http://foodybuddy.net/2015/09/14/peanut-coconut-kozhukattai-recipe.html