Cooking with Pree

With Vinayakar chaturti just  few hours away, here I am with my version of Instant pot Ammini Kozhukattai. It is simple, flavoured with curry leaves and coriader leaves and just perfect to snack on. Ammini Kozhakattai is traditionally made with left over kozhukattai dough, where in they are rolled into tiny balls and tossed in a powder made with chillies, lentils and coconut.

I make kozhukattai once or twice a year and everytime I make them, I pray that I get it perfect. It is usually uncertain until I get the perfectly steamed glistening modaks out of the steamer. But there’s always some left over dough and I always end up making ammini kozhukattais out of them.

I love eating these tiny balls of savoury kozhukkattai and sometimes prefer them to the regular ones. It is so simple to make, the only thing that I dont like is rolling them into tiny balls. Now this is where you can get the little ones at home to come and help you out. You get the job done and trust me this is the kind of job kids would love to help you with.

Lets talk about how to make these kozhukattais now. The main ingredient, the dough is the where you have to be careful with. But we have a simplified instant pot recipe for that too. So you are all sorted in that area 🙂

Next, is the spice powder that you coat the kozhukattais with. I usually make a simple powder with channa dal, uard dal, and red chillies. This time I decided to add some curry leaves and coriander leaves for some extra flavour and they tasted great.

You grind them to a somewhat coarse powder as shown below.