Pudi Kolukattai

Sweet Rice Flour Roll

Ingredients and Utensils

2 cups rice flour

1 cup jaggery or brown sugar

1 shredded coconut

1 tsp. salt

an iddli or vegetable steamer

a pan for toasting the flour

banana leaf or tray

Directions

Heat the rice flour in a dry skillet until lightly toasted, then spread it out on a tray or table top to cool. Sprinkle a little water on it and add the salt, jaggery and coconut. Mix together, adding water only as needed. When it is well kneaded and firm, pinch the dough off into as many lime-sized balls as it will make. Roll into balls, or squeeze in the right hand to create a fist-shaped kolukattai. Bring water in the steamer to a boil and arrange the kolukattais in it, wrapped in banana leaves as in recipe #1. Steam until the balls are a light brown in color. Arrange on a banana leaf or tray and serve to Lord Ganesha.