Kozhukattai Recipe: Traditional South Indian Sweet You Can Make For Ganesh Chaturthi

Indian

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Kozhukattai Recipe
: Traditional South Indian Sweet You Can Make For Ganesh Chaturthi

Name: ~Kozhukattai Recipe~: Traditional South Indian Sweet You Can Make For Ganesh Chaturthi
Total time: 34 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup Rice flour; 1/2 cup Grated coconut; 1/2 cup Jaggery (or sugar); 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder; 1/4 tsp Salt; 1 cup Water

34 mins

Cooking Time

Easy

Difficulty

Ingredients

Veg + Dairy

Diet

Steamed to gentle perfection, sweet kozhukattai is a rice flour dumpling filled with coconut and jaggery, traditionally made during Ganesh Chaturthi. It’s a festive staple across Tamil and Kerala households and carries regional tweaks, but this basic version delivers both simplicity and soul.

Ingredients

UNITSIngredients

1 cupRice flour

1/2 cupGrated coconut

1/2 cupJaggery (or sugar)

1/2 tspCardamom powder

1/4 tspSalt

1 cupWater