Thursday, July 19, 2018

Rava Kothu | Rava Munthiri Kothu | Sweet Recipe

Rava Kothu, a delicious deep fried sweet made from semolina balls. If you're hearing this name "Rava Kothu" for the first time, you might wondered what it is !!! Actually it's an another/easier version of the traditional sweet mundhiri kothu, a famous sweet from down south of Tamilnadu, made from green moong dal and jaggery. While we grew up, on every diwali days, either this rava kothu or mundhiri kothu would be one among the diwali sweet list. Compared to traditional mundhiri kothu, making of this rava kothu is bit easy and even beginners can try without any difficulties.

As far as i remember, this kothu was mostly prepared on diwali time only and for the following days of diwali, we used to have this kothu and murukku as snacks for our evening tea time after school. So to recreate the same combo, i made some pottukadalai murukku on the same day i had prepared this rava kothu. Indeed, it is a awesome combo to have on with some hot tea. Glad that i have prepared this combo after such a long time and nowadays no one prepare this kind of sweet in our family or close circle as far as i knew and it almost become extinct now!!!

Rava Munthiri Kothu

Preparation Time : 20 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Makes : 15-18
Recipe Category: Sweet | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients
Rava - 1 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Grated Coconut - 1/4 cup
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
Ghee - 1/2 tsp
Water - 1/3 cup
Oil - for frying
For Batter
Maida - 1/2 cup
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Water - as needed

Procedure

Heat a pan with ghee, add the rava and grated coconut and roast till it becomes aromatic and slightly change its color. Remove from heat and transfer into a plate.

In the same pan, add the sugar and water, let the sugar dissolve completely, then add the roasted rava and coconut.

Mix it well, switch off the flame and cover it with lid for 5 mins. Then open the lid and add the cardamom powder and mix it well.

Let it comes to hand bearable temperature and then start making balls from the rava mixture. Heat the oil in a kadai for frying.

For the outer outing, take the maida & salt in a bowl, mix it well and then slowly add the water and make it as thick and flowing batter.

Take a sooji ball, dip it in the maida batter and make sure that the batter coats well on all sides and drop it gently in the oil. Let it fry for few secs.

Then gently flip on the other sides and cook till both sides has light golden brown color, drain the rava kothu from the oil and place it on tissue paper.

Tada, Yummy Rava kothu is ready.

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Notes:

In our home, amma sometimes pulse the rava and coconut mixture once in a mixie for fine texture.
Instead of making sugar syrup, in some places after roasting the rava and coconut mixture, they put everything(rava, coconut,sugar and cardamom) in the mixie jar and pulse until it smooth. Later to make balls either hot milk or water is used as needed. So it's such a versatile recipe, you can make changes as per your liking.
If you want, you can add nuts and raisins into it.
No need to check for any sugar consistency, once the sugar is dissolved, you can add the rava and coconut mixture.
Here i have used raw sugar,so the color of the sugar is little brown, but you can use the ordinary white sugar too.
It stays well for days in room temperature.
Make sure that the maida batter coats well on the rava balls.

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Saturday, February 4, 2017

Rava Puttu | Semolina Puttu | Sooji Puttu

Rava Puttu, a delicious breakfast or evening snack made with semolina and grated coconut.I never heard about this puttu until i had it in my friend's home.

Two years back, I wasn't able to attend my close friend's marriage, so later we planned to visit her in her MIL's place at a village nearby Mayiladuthurai. Her MIL prepared a delicious and wide spread of food for our dinner. In that menu, this rava puttu was also included.

My friend knew that I like puttu a lot and I might casually mention it to her during our hostel stay. So she insisted her MIL to prepare some puttu along with the menu.

Her MIL was so sweet & kind enough to prepare this puttu for my sake.The puttu was so soft and she served it with some ghee and sugar. It was so flavorful and delicious in each mouthful.

Later when we were talking over the phone, I got the recipe from my friend and prepared it very often with various combinations like with kadala curry, appalam & banana.

Though it tastes good with other combinations, my all time favorite is with simple ghee & sugar. If you have tried this recipe before, do give it a try!

Rava/Sooji Puttu

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Serves : 2
Recipe Category: Breakfast | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients
Semolina/Sooji/Rava - 1 cup
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Water - as need
Grated Coconut - 1/3 cup

Procedure

Heat a pan, add rava and dry roast it till the nice aroma comes from it , by the time it slightly changes its color too. Remove from the heat and allow to cool completely.

Add salt into the rava & mix it well. Then add little by little water into rava and mix it with your hands until the rava is moist well.

Take a handful of rava and press it with your fist, it should hold the shape,then press it with your thumb,it should crumble, that's the correct stage of rava.

Take the puttu maker and add the grated coconut and then add rava, repeat the same and finish off with coconut.

Steam it in the pressure cooker or puttu steamer for 12-15 mins.

That's it, Yummy Rava Puttu is ready.

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