Kara kozhukkattai / Urad dal Dumpling

Ingredients:

For poornam:

• Urad dal - 1 cup
• Green chilly - 2
• Oil
• Salt
• Mustard seeds
• Hing

For outer cover:

• Rice flour - 1 cup
• Water - 1/2 cup
• Oil - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - 1/4 tsp

Method:

For outer cover:

• Heat a pan, add water and 1 teaspoon of oil and a pinch of salt.
• When the water starts to boil, add rice flour.
• Mix the rice flour and when it is mixed remove from flame.
• The rice flour will not mix nicely with water. It will be like a wet flour.
• Take the mixed rice flour in a bowl, and cover it with a plate for 5 to 10 mins.
• After 10 mins, take the kozhukattai flour and knead it nicely with 1 teaspoon of oil and little warm water.
• Knead it well so that the rice flour becomes like a chapati dough.

For Poornam:

• Soak Urad dal. Grind urad dal, chilly into coarse paste.
• Temper mustard seeds and hing to it. Mix well.
• Steam this mixture in a idly plate till it is cooked.
• Spread this cooked mixture.
• Take some oil in a bowl and take little oil in hand and then take little kozhukattai dough ball and press it in middle to make it like a cup.

• In the middle of the kozhukattai cup, add little poornam.
• Close the sides of kozhukattai mavu gently in all the sides.
• Grease the idli plates with oil and then place the kozhukattai cups in the idly plates
• Pressure cook the kozhukattai in cooker for 5 mins.

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