Kalathappam

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kaltha appam

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 rice1 glass ( the rice we use to make appams , in Tamil we call it pachai arusi . )
cooked rice 2 tea spoon
soda salt1/4 tea spoon
ghee4 table spoon
salta pinch
coconutcut into small bits – 1/2 cup
small onion1/2 hand chopped into small bits
jaggery10 pieces ( adjust according to taste )
cashew nuts2 table spoons
poppy seeds( Kus Kus ) 1 table spoon

Method 

  1. Soak raw rice for two hours . Then grind along with cooked rice to a smooth paste.
  2. 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.
  3. Fry onions, cashew nuts,coconut bits and poppy seeds . In ghee and keep aside.
  4. 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.
  5. Add the fried coconut , cashew nut mixture in . Pour this mixture into a greased pudding tray when warm.
  6. Double boil With lid on in a pressures cooker on sim for 10 to 15 minutes.
  7. Cook with out a weight . Remove cut and serve hot or cold.