Aval pidi kozhukattai recipe

Aval pidi kozhukattai recipe – Healthy and easy steamed rice flakes dumplings recipe. Aval kozhukattai recipe with full video and step-by-step instructions.

Poha | aval | rice flakes are widely used in Indian cuisine. I have posted a lot of recipes using poha in Jeyashris kitchen. Usually, we make upma with aval, but this one is steamed dumplings. This is very similar to the arisi pidi kozhukattai. But this can be made just in 20 minutes.

Aval kara pidi kozhukattai is a perfect breakfast | evening tiffin | dinner. Since it is a no onion no garlic recipe, you can serve this on a fasting day too. You can use red aval | sigappu aval for this aval pidi kozhukattai recipe.

I didn’t add veggies in this recipe but you can add onions, grated carrot, and frozen peas too. You can make this for kids when they come back from school. This is a gluten-free, healthy vegan recipe.

Check out the Collection of aval | poha recipes. Also check out, millet pidi kozhukattai recipe, sweet pidi kozhukattai.

Aval pidi kozhukattai recipe

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Aval pidi kozhakattai recipe

Healthy steamed poha dumplings recipe

Course Breakfast, Dinner, tiffin,

Cuisine Indian, South Indian

Keyword healthy recipes, poha recipes

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 14 kozhukattais

Author Jeyashri suresh

Ingredients

• 1 cup + 2 tbsp thick poha | aval | rice flakes
• 1 cup water
• 2 tbsp coconut
• 2 tsp coconut oil
• ½ tsp mustard seeds
• ½ tbsp urad dal
• ½ tbsp chana dal
• 2 green chili finely chopped
• Few curry leaves finely chopped
• Few coriander leaves finely chopped
• Salt as needed
• ¼ tsp asafoetida

Instructions

• Powder 1 cup of poha | aval in a mixie jar. You can just pulse this for few seconds. Let it be little coarse.
• Wash 2 tbsp of poha in water and drain the water. Keep this aside. This will get fluffed up in few minutes. This step is optional. You can skip this too.
• In a pan add 2 tsp of coconut oil.
• Add mustard seeds, urad dal and chana dal to this.
• Once the mustard splutters and the dal turns golden brown, add the chopped green chilis, coriander leaves, curry leaves and asafoetida.
• Saute for a minute.
• Add 1 cup of water and keep the flame to medium.
• Add salt and let the water comes to a nice boil.
• Once it starts boiling, lower the flame and add the coarsely powdered poha to this.
• Mix well without any lumps. Now add the soaked aval and coconut.
• Mix well, till everything gets well combined.
• By now, the water must have evaporated fully.
• Switch off the flame.
• Once you can handle the heat, take a lemon sized portion of the aval mixture.
• Make into oblong shaped pidi kozhukattais.
• Heat a steamer and stem this pidi kozhukattais on a greased plate.
• Steam for 5 minutes.
• Once done, switch off the flame and take out after a minute.
• Using a spoon, gently take out the pidi kozhakattais.
• Serve with any chutney of your choice.
• We had with kollu kara chutney.

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Notes

1. Making the aval pidi kozhukattais in coconut oil gives an excellent flavor.
   2. You can use red poha | sigappu aval for making this Aval pidi kozhukattai.

• Powder 1 cup of poha | aval in a mixie jar. You can just pulse this for few seconds. Let it be little coarse.

• Wash 2 tbsp of poha in water and drain the water. Keep this aside. This will get fluffed up in few minutes. This step is optional. You can skip this too.

• In a pan add 2 tsp of coconut oil.
• Add mustard seeds, urad dal and chana dal to this.
• Once the mustard splutters and the dal turns golden brown, add the chopped green chilis, coriander leaves, curry leaves and asafoetida.
• Saute for a minute.

• Add 1 cup of water and keep the flame to medium.
• Add salt and let the water comes to a nice boil.

• Once it starts boiling, lower the flame and add the coarsely powdered poha to this.

• Mix well without any lumps. Now add the soaked aval and coconut.
• Mix well, till everything gets well combined.

• By now, the water must have evaporated fully.
• Switch off the flame.

• Once you can handle the heat, take a lemon sized portion of the aval mixture.
• Make into oblong shaped pidi kozhukattais.

• Heat a steamer and stem this pidi kozhukattais on a greased plate.
• Steam for 5 minutes.

• Once done, switch off the flame and take out after a minute.
• Using a spoon, gently take out the pidi kozhakattais.

• Serve with any chutney of your choice.
• We had with kollu kara chutney.

1. Making the aval pidi kozhukattais in coconut oil, gives and excellent flavour.
2. You can use red poha | sigappu aval for making this Aval pidi kozhukattai.