Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cooking Time : 20 minutes
Serving : 4 members
Description
This recipe was posted by Asiya omer who is a food blogger for the recipe contest conducted by my face book page sauté, fry n bake , which won the second prize . Asiya omer was the first food blogger I met as well .
Ingredients
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Fried rice flour | ( puttu flour - 200 grams ) |
| Dried shrimp | 50 grams |
| Onion | 100 grams chopped |
| Tomato | 100 grams chopped |
| Ginger garlic paste | 1 teaspoon |
| Turmeric powder + chilli powder | 1/4 teaspoon each |
| Green chillies | 1 chopped |
| Curry leaves + coriander leaves | few chopped |
| Oil | 1 tablespoon |
| Salt | to taste |
| Coconut grated | 2 tablespoon |
Method
- Dry roast the dry shrimp . Wash making sure there is no sand stuck to the shrimp . Heat oil in a kadai . Fry the onions to translucent .
- Add ginger garlic paste and fry to brown . Top with tomato , green chillies , curry leaves , coriander leaves and fry for a few minutes . Add turmeric powder , salt to taste and chilli powder . Toss well and add 1 cup of water and bring to boil .
- Mix rice flour and grated coconut together . Add the rice flour mixture to the boiling dry shrimp masala checking for salt . Mix well to get a kozhukattai dough .
- Make kozhukattais in desired shapes . Steam them in idli steamers for 10 -15 minutes until cooked through . Serve hot with coconut chutney or as it is .
- This dish can be done with fresh prawns also . When ever I get fresh prawns , I make this at home and entertain every one .
- The recipes I have sent for the competition are not posted on my blog . You can share these recipes on your blog once the competition results are out . All these recipes are experimented by me .
- Usually I take note of recipes while eating at restaurants , through relatives or through the television . I make changes according to my liking and try it at home .
- Thank you for giving this opportunity . As there are a few more days to go for the competition , I could send in only 3 recipes .
