Kalathappam
Preparation time: 15 mts veg
Cooking time: 10mts
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup raw
rice soaked for 4 hours
Jaggery
-250g
Cooked
parboiled rice-3tbsp
Grated
coconut-3tbsp
Water (for melting the jaggery)-1/4 cup
Baking
soda-1/4tsp
Ghee or oil
-2tbsp
Coconut
flakes (copra)-2tbsp
Salt to
taste
Onion cut
into small pieces -2tsp
Cardamom-4nos
PREPARATION:
Soak rice
for 4 hours. Wash and drain it. In a pan, melt Jaggery with 1/4 cup water, sieve
and keep it a side. Grind soaked rice with 1/4 cup water, cooked rice and
grated coconut until smooth. In a pan, mix rice mixture and jaggery water. Warm
it for 2minutes. Then add baking soda, cardamom powder, salt to the rice
mixture and stir well. Switch off the flame.
Heat the pressure cooker. Add oil or ghee and sauté
coconut flakes ( kopra) . After a minute add the finely chopped onions. Stir
till it turns light brown in colour. Now add the warmed rice and jaggery
mixture. The onions will float on top. Do not stir. Close the cooker. Do not
place the weight. Cook on high flame for 2 minutes and in low flame for 8
minutes. Switch off the flame. Allow to cool for 10 minutes. Remove from
cooker. Kalathappam is ready.
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