Thengai Poorana Kozukattai

Ingredients:

For Pooranam:

Coconut – 1 cup (grated)

Jaggery – 1 cup (powdered)

Elaichi powder – ½ teaspoon

For Outer Covering:

Raw rice – 1 cup

Salt – a pinch

Method:

For Outer Covering(Mel Maavu):

1. Soak rice for 3 or 4 hours.
2. Grind to smooth paste.
3. Heat a teaspoon of coconut oil in a non-stick kadai.
4. Add the ground paste.
5. Keep stirring until that turns transparent & into a ball.
6. Allow to cool.
7. Make small balls.

For Filling:

1. Mix coconut & jaggery in a microsafe bowl.
2. Micro HIGH for 5 minutes & allow 2 to 3 minutes standing time.
3. Allow cooling.
4. Make into small balls.

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Once made arrange in idli plates.

Steam in idli cooker till it whistles.