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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Vegetable Kuzhakkatai (Vegetable rice dumplings)

Ingredients:

Rice                -  1 1/2 cups
Jeera               -  1 table spoon
Pepper            -  1 table spoon
Carrots           -  1 nos
Potato             -  1 nos
Beans              -  a few
Capsicum        -  1/2
Green chilies    -  4 - 5 nos
Mustard seeds -  1 table spoon
Asafoitida        -  1 tea spoon
Cooking oil      -  2 table spoons
Curry leaves    -  a few leaves
Fresh coconut  -  2 table spoons
Salt to taste

1.  Wash and spread rice in a shaddy place for 1 hr.
2.  Add Jeera,  pepper to the rice and dry grind it to rawa.
3.  Heat 1 table spoon of oil in a kadai, add mustard to it and once it crackles add curry leaves, asafoitida to it.
4.  Once they crackle add 2 cups of water and salt to it.
5.  Add the rice rawa to it and keep stirring till the water is absorbed and the rice it 1/2 cooked.
6.  Grate carrot, and finely chop potatoes, capsicum,  green chilies and beans.
7.  Heat the balance oil and add the vegetables to it and half cook them adding enough salt.
8.  Add the vegetables to the half cooked rice and mix well.
9.  Make small long balls out of the mixture and steam them in idli cooker.
10.  Serve hot with coconut chutney and tomato chutney.

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