Preparation Time : 4 hours
Cooking Time : 30 minutes
Serving : 6 members
Description
Kallathappam . I got this recipe from my mothers cook book . ( my mother has never made this though ) this is a traditional Kerala sweet dish made with simple ingredients available at your daily kitchen . I tried it out for breakfast when my son – in – law and daughters had visited us for breakfast . It was tasty and a great hit on the table .
Ingredients
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Raw rice | 1 glass ( the rice we use to make appams , in Tamil we call it pachai arusi . ) |
| cooked rice | 2 tea spoon |
| soda salt | 1/4 tea spoon |
| ghee | 4 table spoon |
| salt | a pinch |
| coconut | cut into small bits – 1/2 cup |
| small onion | 1/2 hand chopped into small bits |
| jaggery | 10 pieces ( adjust according to taste ) |
| cashew nuts | 2 table spoons |
| poppy seeds | ( Kus Kus ) 1 table spoon |
Method
- Soak raw rice for two hours . Then grind along with cooked rice to a smooth paste.
- Melt jaggery using water to a syrup . Strain , cool and mix to the ground rice paste adding salt .the mixture should be loose and watery . Keep aside for 2 hours.
- Fry onions, cashew nuts,coconut bits and poppy seeds . In ghee and keep aside.
- Add soda salt to the rice mixture just before cooking . Then keep the loose rice mixture on fire storing through out so it does not stick to the bottom or form lumps.
- Add the fried coconut , cashew nut mixture in . Pour this mixture into a greased pudding tray when warm.
- Double boil With lid on in a pressures cooker on sim for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Cook with out a weight . Remove cut and serve hot or cold.
