Hope everyone had a wonderful Vinayaka Chadurthi , yesterday. I had a great day and thanks for ur wishes :)
The prasadam offered for Lord Ganesha , from clockwise: starting with bowl of garbonza bean sundal, sweet rava kozhukattai, Urad dhal vada, savory rice dhal kozhukattai
Rava: 1 cup
Sugar: 1/2 cup
Coconut freshly grated: 1/4 cup
Cashew: 10 counts broken into small pieces
Green cardamom: 4 pods Crushed
Water: boiling water
Ghee: 1 tsp
Salt: a pinch
Method:
Heat a pot with ghee, fry the cashew once they turn golden color. Add the rawa and roast it.
Take a big microwave safe bowl, put the rava mixture, sugar, crushed cardamon, coconut and salt pour hot water litle by little and the mixture could be little loose! Now keep the mixture in microwave for one min, it will start to become thick!
Let it cool sometime, form a small ball and close your fist. Make it at desire shape or thickness. Now grease the idli plate and place kozhukattai and steam it another 12 minutes.
Enjoy the rava kozhukattai hot!
I am sending this sweet modak/kozhukattai to Krishna & Ganesha Chaturti event hosted at Purva's Daawat.
I made the Ganesha idol with Crayola modeling earth tone clay dough.
The festival day, the market is filled with Ganesha/Pillayar/Vinayagar idols made with fresh mud with a colorful umbrella!
We buy every year a new mud idol and decorate with jewels & coins (penny stick to his belly button).
We offer plenty of fruits, cooked garbanzo and modak /kozhukattai(steamed rice flour stuffed with sweet stuffing).
The 3rd day or 5 day, we take the idol to seashore and immerse it in sea. As I lived near the seashore, the 3 rd day, the beach looks like another festival. People come with their idols. But now, everything became very contemporary, the third day, a truck is passing in street and collecting the idols with a fee to immerse in beach! The life is simplified and convenient for my parents, they just pay and give the idol just in front of the door. They take care of immersing them in water.
For the Ganesha Festival, my mom makes with rava/semolina modak, which is very easy to prepare not like the steam rice flour. Till now we had only in rava/ semolina kozhukattai for Vinayaka chaturthi.
I am sharing my mom's recipe the sweet rava modak/Kozhukattai.
We buy every year a new mud idol and decorate with jewels & coins (penny stick to his belly button).
We offer plenty of fruits, cooked garbanzo and modak /kozhukattai(steamed rice flour stuffed with sweet stuffing).
The 3rd day or 5 day, we take the idol to seashore and immerse it in sea. As I lived near the seashore, the 3 rd day, the beach looks like another festival. People come with their idols. But now, everything became very contemporary, the third day, a truck is passing in street and collecting the idols with a fee to immerse in beach! The life is simplified and convenient for my parents, they just pay and give the idol just in front of the door. They take care of immersing them in water.
For the Ganesha Festival, my mom makes with rava/semolina modak, which is very easy to prepare not like the steam rice flour. Till now we had only in rava/ semolina kozhukattai for Vinayaka chaturthi.
I am sharing my mom's recipe the sweet rava modak/Kozhukattai.
The prasadam offered for Lord Ganesha , from clockwise: starting with bowl of garbonza bean sundal, sweet rava kozhukattai, Urad dhal vada, savory rice dhal kozhukattai
Rava: 1 cup
Sugar: 1/2 cup
Coconut freshly grated: 1/4 cup
Cashew: 10 counts broken into small pieces
Green cardamom: 4 pods Crushed
Water: boiling water
Ghee: 1 tsp
Salt: a pinch
Method:
Heat a pot with ghee, fry the cashew once they turn golden color. Add the rawa and roast it.
Take a big microwave safe bowl, put the rava mixture, sugar, crushed cardamon, coconut and salt pour hot water litle by little and the mixture could be little loose! Now keep the mixture in microwave for one min, it will start to become thick!
Let it cool sometime, form a small ball and close your fist. Make it at desire shape or thickness. Now grease the idli plate and place kozhukattai and steam it another 12 minutes.
Enjoy the rava kozhukattai hot!
I am sending this sweet modak/kozhukattai to Krishna & Ganesha Chaturti event hosted at Purva's Daawat.
Comments
Will try your rava kozzhukattai:) It looks tempting!
Rava kozhukattai looks appetizing.. Never tried this. Good one!
Thanks for already visiting the round up and hope to see some of your enticing dishes in green:)
The rava kozhukattais and sundal look yummy too..
Rava Kozhukattai looks delicious too and naivedya thali looks really tempting.
Thank you for the loevly entry
Seeking your permission to use Ganesh Idol and Naivedya thali for Round up
I have a collection in which my most treasured one is the one my daughter made for me from sealing putty!
Never knew kozhakottai could be amde with rawa. Looks very inviting.
thats so cool , I simply like the small Ganesha Idol .
I wish sometimes life to be simple and less Sophisticated ...we miss those sweet memories isn't ..
Hugs and smiles
I did it on Ganesh Chatu day the idol and came out perefect, i will update the idol making soon, so anyone can benefit later
Hugs,
Siri
I guess my mind was blank... smart me forgot all abt the relevance.
rava kozhukattai sounds new to me and interesting
simply superb- both the hand-made pillayar and the rava kozhukattais.
This year I made out of apflour, next year I will try with clay, for sure..
Thanks for your creative and inspiring Ideas. I am sure you performed puja so well.... May Ganesh shower his blessings on you always!
And for being such an active member of the blogging world.
i bow to your creativity and humbleness.
loved ur prasad plate a lot, those rava K look so good & quick to make, gotta' try it :)
Great Work..
rava kozhukattai super a irukku..
methi gobi romba different combi..will try when i get a chance:)
Just tried this rava kozhukattai. Steamed it for 12mins exactly- does it look the same as it was before steaming? or the rava becomes smooth/sticky like in kesari? pls lemme know. Thx!
~Juju