Sweet Pidi Kozhukattai Recipe – Vella Kozhukattai Recipe with rice flour

We make sweet pidi kozhukattai for Chitra Pournami, aadi velli and Navratri as well. Recently I heard from my South Indian friends making pidi kozhukattai for Ganesh chaturthi too. Some people call this as Vella kozhukattai/Vellam kolukattai. So I thought of making this post for this festival. Usually I make pidi kozhukatti with homemade processed rice flour. 

Today I have shared a version with store bought rice flour( I used Anil kozhukattai maavu).Its cooking procedure is very similar to sweet ammini kozhukattai recipe. Only the shapes are different. So its like a two in one recipe. Do try this easy and simple sweet kozhukattai variety for this Ganesh chaturthi and have a great celebration ! Lets see how to do this easy sweet pidi kozhukattai recipe with rice flour. Check out my Easy Kara Pidi kozhukattai too !

Sweet pidi kozhukattai recipe

Sweet pidi kozhukattai with rice flour, jaggery and coconut

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Sweet

Serves: 12

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 5 Minutes

Total time: 15 Minutes

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

1 cup -- 250ml Kozhukattai Rice flour or idiyappam flour - 1/2 cup ( I used Anil Kozhukattai flour) Grated jaggery or powdered jaggery - 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp Water - 1 cup  Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp Grated coconut or coconut pieces - 2 tbsp Oil - to grease hands and idli plate

METHOD

Take the powdered jaggery in a kadai. Add 1 cup of water and heat it. Melt the jaggery and strain it with a metal strainer. After straining the syrup, boil it till frothy. Simmer the flame and add grated coconut, cardamom powder. Mix well & boil. Add the measured rice flour. Mix well till all the syrup is absorbed by the rice flour. It will become a thick, soft dough. Grease your hands with oil and take a small ball sized dough. Press it with 4 fingers towards inside and make an impression as shown in the picture below. Make all the kozhukattai and arrange them in a greased idli plate. Boil water in a idli pot and let it start to roll boil. Place the idli plate with kozhukattai. Steam it for 5-7 minutes in high flame. It will look shiny. Check if it bounces on a plate. Switch off the flame and let the kozhukattai be inside the pot for 5 minutes. Then remove them from the plate and serve.Enjoy !

Note

Do not add more water if you add less jaggery because kozhukattai tastes less sweet in this case. The quantity of jaggery and water should be proportionate. You can add more jaggery i.e Rice flour & jaggery in 1:2 ratio of you want sweeter kozhukattai.

Easy, delicious sweet pidi kozhukattai is ready to offer God !

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Fried Modak Recipe With Wheat Flour - Fried Mothagam Recipe - Ganesh Chaturthi Recipes

Fried modak is nothing but deep fried dumplings(Kozhukattai) filled with jaggery and coconut stuffing. In North India especially in Maharashtra, people make Ukdiche modak(steamed modak) and this deep fried modak during Ganesh Chaturthi festival. They call it as “Talniche Modak” in Hindi.

Generally maida and sooji/Rava is used to make the outer covering and coconut + sugar is used for stuffing/pooran. But I’ve used wheat flour and jaggery. Last year my MIL made nearly 54 fried mothagam during our house warming ceremony for Ganapathy Homam. She is really the best. It tasted great and stayed good for several days. 

Inspired by her, I tried this recipe today to share under North Indian style Ganesh Chaturthi recipes.I was feeling tired even before I complete a count of 11. But the final result made me feeling refreshed. It came out really well. I tried deep frying the modak made of rice flour as well. It came out well and crispy but it drank more oil when compared with wheat flour fried modak. I have shared a picture of it below.

Friends, Do try this wheat flour modak recipe for this Vinayaka Chaturthi festival. I am sure you will love it. Lets see how to prepare deep fried modak with wheat flour for Ganesh puja.

Fried modak recipe

Deep Fried modak with wheat flour and jaggery - Ganesh Chaturthi recipes

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Sweet

Serves: 8

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 5 Minutes

Total time: 15 Minutes

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

1 cup - 200ml Wheat flour - 1/2 cup Salt - a pinch Melted ghee - 1/2 tsp Rava/Sooji – 1 tsp ( optional) Water - as needed (I used around 1/4 cup) Cooking oil - to deep fry For stuffing/Pooran Grated coconut - 1/2 cup Powdered Jaggery - 1/3 cup Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp Dry Roasted poppy seeds - 1 tbsp ( Optional)

METHOD

First make the stuffing/Pooran part. For this, take the grated coconut, powdered jaggery and dry roasted poppy seeds in a kadai. The quantity of jaggery should be less than coconut. Do not add water.Mix well in medium flame. Let the jaggery melt in heat and mix well with coconut. When the mixture starts to become thick without moisture and leaves the pan, switch off the flame and transfer the stuffing to a plate. Spread it well and let the stuffing cool down. (If you heat the stuffing for long time, it will become chewy and hard. So remove the stuffing as soon as jaggery is melted and mixed well with coconut. Initially it will look as a wet mass. But when it cools down, it will become crumbly.) In a wide bowl, take the wheat flour, melted ghee, a pinch of salt and mix well. Add water little by little and make a stiff, thick dough. The dough should not be too soft. Knead for sometime and cover with a wet cloth. Let the dough rest for just 5 minutes. Take a small ball of dough and dust in wheat flour. Make a thin circle of poori size. Remember the sides of circle should be thinner than the center. As this is made of wheat flour, it will become dense after deep frying. So make the poori thin.Cover the remaining dough with a wet cloth. Now take a small lid and cut the circle of uniform shape. Place 1 tbsp of stuffing the middle and make 5-7 pleats in the dough. Refer picture and do the same way. Join all the pleats and make a coconut shape modak.Make sure the modak is sealed properly else the stuffing will ooze out in oil while frying. Heat oil in a kadai and when it gets heated, put a pinch of dough. If it rises to the top immediately, oil temperature is just right.Now drop 3-4 modak and cook in medium flame.Cook till starts to turn golden brown.Flip the other side and cook till done. Remove in a tissue. Fried modak is ready. Offer to Lord Ganesha and seek his blessings ! Enjoy ! It stays crispy till its hot. If you wish, you can serve them immediately or this modak can be stored in an air tight box and consumed for a week. It stays good and edible.

Note

For stuffing sugar can be used instead of jaggery. For making dough, maida/All purpose flour can be used. If you wish, you can add 1 tbsp of rava/Sooji too. Do not stir the coconut+jaggery mixture for long time. It will become chewy and hard.So remove the pooran as soon as jaggery is completely melted and mixed with coconut without any moisture content. You should deep fry the modak as soon as you make the shapes else modak may crack while frying. If you make the modak in advance, keep it covered with a wet cloth till you deep fry. Oil temperature is very important while frying. If the heat is more, modak will not cook inside and the outer covering becomes brown soon.So fry in medium flame patiently.

Fried modak with rice flour covering

Deep fried modak is ready to offer to Ganapathy Bappa. Wish you all a very happy Ganesh Chaturthi. May the Lord makes all our dreams come true !

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Sweet Ammini Kozhukattai Recipe – Easy Kozhukattai Recipes With Rice Flour

Ammini kozhukattai also known as Ammani / mani kozhukattai in Tamil, mini rice balls in English, Undrallu/Bellam Kudumulu in Telugu is a very easy to make kozhukattai variety. People make sweet and spicy version of this kolukattai for evening snacks and during Ganesh Chaturthi festival as an offering to God. Long back I shared ammini kozhukattai under low calorie snack. But this is the first time I tried sweet ammini kozhukattai i.e Vella Kozhukattai and masala ammini kozhukattai/Spicy kozhukattai. 

Sweet kozhukattai can be prepared in various ways. I made this with store bought rice flour by directly cooking it in jaggery syrup just like sweet pidi kozhukattai. Usually I make kozhukattai with store bought idiyappam flour but this time I tried with Anil kozhukattai maavu. It came out super soft, delicious and flavorful.

 If you are looking for an easy sweet kozhukattai recipe without making pooranam/stuffing part, this is the best choice. Kids would love it too. Even bachelors can try this for Ganesha pooja. Make this easy, cute looking sweet ammini kozhukattai/ Inippu kozhukattai for this Vinayaka chaturthi festival and enjoy ! Lets see how to prepare soft and tasty sweet ammini kozhukattai with step by step photos !

Check out my Full collection of Ganesh Chaturthi recipes HERE

Sweet Ammini Kozhukattai Recipe

Ammini kozhukattai/ mani kozhukattai - Sweet version using store bought rice flour and jaggery.

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Sweet

Serves: 2

Prep time: 15 Minutes

Cook time: 5 Minutes

Total time: 20 Minutes

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

1 cup - 250ml Rice flour - 1/2 cup ( I used Anil Kozhukattai flour) Grated jaggery or powdered jaggery - 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp Water - 3/4 -1 cup Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp Grated coconut - 1 tbsp Oil - to grease hands and idli plate

METHOD

Take the powdered jaggery in a kadai. Add 3/4 to 1 cup of water and heat it. Melt the jaggery and strain it with a metal strainer. After straining the syrup, boil it till frothy. Simmer the flame and add grated coconut, cardamom powder. Mix well & boil. Add the measured rice flour. Mix well till all the syrup is absorbed by the rice flour. It will become a thick, soft dough. After the dough turns warm, make small balls by greasing your hands with oil. Grease the idli plate with gingely oil or cooking oil. Boil the water in an idli pot or kadai. Keep the idli plate only after the water starts to roll boil. Steam it for 5-7 minutes. Do not steam for more time. It will make the balls hard. To check whether its cooked, take one ball and drop in a plate. If it bounces, ball is cooked. If it sticks to the plate, balls are not cooked. Switch off the flame after the balls are cooked. Let it rest for 5 minutes and then remove the balls in a plate.Enjoy ! I garnished with grated coconut & served it.

Note

Add more jaggery if you need more sweetness. You can add upto 1/3 cup. I felt adding 1/4 cup itself was sufficient. Water quantity depends on the flour you use. Homemade rice flour may need lesser water. Do not steam the balls for more time. It will become hard. To avoid this, place the idli plate only after the water in the idli pot starts to roll boil. By doing this way, kozhukattai gets cooked fast and remains soft too.

Try this easy sweet kozhukattai for this Ganesh chaturthi and enjoy your celebration !

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Ganesh Chaturthi Pooja Procedure | Puja Vidhi | Pooja Vidhanam

I have shared Ganesh Chaturthi Pooja / Pooja vidhi / Pooja vidhanam with slokhas and mantra in PDF format in Tamil as per my readers request. Last year I made a post on how we celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi @ Vinayaka chaturthi at home with details about Abishekam things, pooja items along with its procedures and Ganesh chaturthi recipes links. But it is purely based on my family’s tradition and practice. Some people have the practice of keeping Kalasha and Gouri on this day.

Recently one of my readers requested me to share Ganesh Chaturthi Pooja Vidhanam/Puja vidhi along with mantras just like my Varalakshmi Vratham pooja post. So I referred my book “Avanai maadha Pooja Vidhanam” ( My friend Shalini’s gift) and shared the slokhas, detailed pooja method with pictures and Ganesha story in PDF format ( you can see at the end of post) to help people who wish to celebrate Ganesh chaturthi pooja in an authentic way. I have shared pooja vidhanam in Tamil. So I have mentioned some useful links for pooja vidhi in Sanskrit, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada at the end of the post. Hope you find them useful.

Ganesh Chaturthi festival is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Ganesha. He is the first worshipped God before any holy puja or occasion. This year 2023, Vinayagar Chaturthi festival falls on September 18th, Monday as per Vaakiya panchangam. This festival is also known as 'Vinayak Chaturthi' or 'Vinayaka Chavithi' . It is observed during the Hindu month of Bhadra in Hindi /Avani in Tamil (mid-August to mid-September). For more information on Ganesh chaturthi festival, click this link .
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Click this Video on how to make Homemade Ganesh using Kozhukattai dough.

For Ganesh chaturthi Kolam/Rangoli designs, please Visit my in-laws blog for Learn kolam.

Disclaimer : The pictures and pooja procedures I shared in this post are from a devotional book gifted by my friend. This is just one of the ways of celebration. It may vary from place to place. Please consult the elders in your family and follow your tradition. Beginners can follow this if you don’t have any specific procedure at home. Thanks for visiting this page.

Ingredients 

List for Abishekam, pooja and neivedyam

• Ganesh idol

• Wooden plank or peeta to place Ganesha

• Flowers

• Milk

• Curd

• Honey

• Tender coconut water

• Water

• Rice flour

• Sesame oil

• Turmeric powder

• Shikakai powder

• Kumkum,Sandal paste

• Panchamirtham (Curd based delicacy consisting of Panch(5) items: Milk, Sugar, Ghee (clarified butter), Honey, Bananas)  Some items are not shown in pic.

 

For Decoration and pooja

• Vastram for Ganesha ( New blouse bit or dhoti cloth)

• Mupiri nool for poonool ( 3 threaded string)

• ArugamPul (Bermuda grass (English). Arugampul (Tamil), Dhub (Hindi), Durva (Sanskrit). Karuka (Malayalam), Garikagoddi (Telugu), Garikoihallu (Kannada))

• Tulsi leaves ( Its allowed only on this day)

• Vellerukku Malai ( White flower garland, refer the above picture)

• Yellow rice/Akshathai

• Flowers

• Kumkum, Sandal powder

• Incense stick

• Camphor

• Sesame oil & ghee for lamp

• Fruits, coconut, betel leaves & betel nut for offering

• Banana leaf

• Turmeric powder for manjal pillayar

For Neivedyam recipes



Click THIS LINK for Neivedyam recipes collection.

• Coconut

• Jaggery

• Chana dal/Moong dal

• Sugar

• Besan

• Urad dal

• Green chillies, ginger, salt ( for pooran)

• Raw rice for payasam

• Urad dal for vada

• Wheat flour,banana & jaggery for appam

• Sesame seeds for ellu urundai

• Click HERE to see the no onion no garlic lunch menu cooking with ingredients

Abhishekam Order



Benefits of Abhishekam

PANCHAGAVYAM - Removes all sins of mankind

PANCHAMRUTHAM - Gives wealth

GHEE- Gives Moksha state

MILK - Gives long life

CURD - Gives Good Children

HONEY - Melodious voice

RICE POWDER - Frees from debts

SUGAR CANE JUICE - Gives good health and removes enmity

LIME JUICE - Removes fear of death

TENDER COCONUT JUICE - Gives enjoyment and full satisfaction in life

SANDAL PASTE - Gives Lakshmi's Grace

SUGAR - Removes enmity

Source : http://www.teluguone.com/devotional/content/what-are-things-used-in-shiva-abhishekam-its-effects-56-27598.html#sthash.kCQAROkq.dpuf

Abhishekam should be done by the elders of the family. In our house, my daughter sits with my husband and do the abhishekam :)  Refer the above picture. If you are having Ganesha made of Turmeric powder, soft clay or Kozhukattai dough, pour water and other abhishekam items only in spoons else Ganesha will dissolve in water.

You can chant this Ganesha Gayathri mantram while doing Abhishekam.
“Om Tatpurushaya Vidmahe Vakratundaya dheemahi, Tanno Danti Prachodayat”

Draw Kolam/Rangoli on where you are going to do the pooja. Take all the abhishekham items in a plate as shown in the picture. Keep a bowl full of water. Keep some flowers in a plate. Keep an incense stick and a camphor ready.Take a wide plate ( thambaalam). Place a wooden plank inside it and keep the Ganesh idol. Start the abhishekam by putting some flowers and few drops of water. Before doing abhishekam,keep this mind. Ganesh idol should not fall down during abhishekam. So do not pour more water. Touch the idol carefully with support.

First do the sesame oil abhishekam, then apply shikakai powder. Wash it well by adding water. Then apply turmeric powder, light the incense stick and show the dhoop & dheep. Mix rice flour in water and do the abhishekam. Then comes milk, lemon juice, tender coconut water, curd, panchamirtham followed by honey. Collect the panchamirtham with honey in a plate. Pour some water and then continue with sandal paste, Kumkum and lastly viboodhi abhishekam. Finish the abhishekam with little milk. Show the dheep. Pour water and start to decorate the Ganesh. Collect all the abhishekam water in the wide plate and pour in tulsi plant or under some trees.

Lord Ganesha Decoration

Wipe the idol with a clean cloth. Put a poonool / Mupiri nool(3 threaded string) from left to right keeping Ganesha facing towards you. Then wear a new cloth for the idol. Decorate with Tulsi leaves (Generally Tulsi should not be used to decorate Ganesha. But it is allowed only on this day.) Vellerukku malai, arugampul malai and flowers. After abhishekam and decoration, start doing the pooja.

How to do pooja

Check out this PDF for detailed pooja stotras in Tamil. Please download it and follow the directions if you wish to make pooja with kalasam.

Before you start the pooja, keep lots of flowers, leaves and Arugampul in a plate. Make a small cone shaped pillayar/Ganesh with turmeric powder and keep a kumkum dot. Keep a small bowl full of Panchamirtham and a spoonful of honey in a bowl.

If you are placing Kalash, It should be placed firmly on a Copper/Silver plate with rice spread on it. A Coconut is placed over the mouth of the Kalash. Five mango leaves are placed inside the kalash before placing the coconut (like a skirting).

The decorated Ganesha Idol can be placed above on a table/stool and the Kalasha and its plate can be placed in the ground. Light the lamp on the sides of Ganesha. Keep the small turmeric Ganesha( made of turmeric powder mixed with little water) nearby the idol. Keep kumkum & flowers. Place a plate with 5 types of fruits, broken coconut, betel leaves and nuts in front of the God.

 
In another plate or banana leaf, spread the neivdeyam recipes. Kozhukattai varieties comes to the left side of Ganesha. Rice and other items has to be kept in the usual order. Refer picture for the idea. Keep payasam and aval.pori kadalai/Puffed rice with peanuts in small bowls. Start doing the pooja.

For any pooja, Poorvanga pooja is considered as Pradhana pooja. So keep the turmeric Ganesha before the Ganesh idol and start the poorvanga pooja mantra. 

Check out this PDF for detailed pooja stotras with method in Tamil. Please download it and follow the directions. Finish the pooja with mangala aarti !

Ganesha Chaturthi pooja vidhi with mantras in sanskrit / english
 http://www.drikpanchang.com/festivals/ganesh-chaturthi/ganesha-chaturthi-puja-vidhi.html

Please use http://www.virtualvinodh.com/aksharamkh/aksharamukha2.php to transliterate the mantras to your script (tamil / telugu / kannada ) from Devanagari.

Siddhi Vinayaka Ashtottara sadha namavali  in other languages

Sanskrit -  http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_ganesha/vinaayaka108-5.html?lang=sa

Tamil -  http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_ganesha/vinaayaka108-5.html?lang=ta

Telugu -  http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_ganesha/vinaayaka108-5.html?lang=te

English - IAST - http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_ganesha/ganesha108.html?lang=iast


AUDIO, VIDEO LINKS FOR OTHER LANGUAGES

• Click this LINK for Pooja Vidhanam Audio in Telugu

• Check this LINK , LINK for Pooja Vidhanam Audio in Tamil

• For Hindi version, check this youtube video LINK

 After celebration procedures ( Visarjanam)

On Chaturthi evening, make wheat flour appam and do the neivedyam. The next day morning, you can keep idli for neivedyam or simply fruits would do. On afternoon, keep dal and rice with ghee for neivedyam. Continue this neivedyam till Ganesha stays in your house. The next day or the third day, take the ganesha idol along with flowers, vastram, some puffed rice, jaggery and fried gram dal (Do not remove anything from idol) and put it in water. Let the Ganesh idol dissolve in water and take away all the misfortunes of people.

Click THIS LINK for Neivedyam recipes collection.

Neivedyam Recipes









 

 
 
Please click this LINK for full collection of neivedyam recipes. This is the LINK for Kozhukattai making Videos & Homemade Ganesh idol using rice flour dough.

Disclaimer : The pictures and pooja procedures I shared in this post are from a devotional book gifted by my friend. This is just one of the ways of celebration. It may vary from place to place. Please consult the elders in your family and follow your tradition. Beginners can follow this if you don’t have any specific procedure at home. Thanks for visiting this page.

Wish you all a very happy Ganesh chaturthi !

Thanks for visiting this page !

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